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Guest: Jimbo Chester
(355 days ago)
As I was taught many years ago a million was 10 to the power of 6ie 1 followed by 6 noughts. A billion is a thousand million and a trillion is one million million. Or ten to the power of 12..These figures are too big to conjure up in the mind are irrelevent in terms of visualisation..The only article I ever saw which gave any way to visualize this amount was a picture of a 1000 dollar wad of notes at 100 dollars each. This then pictured a six foot high football pitch holding a billion dollars. Try and imagine a 1000 football pitches filled to six foot with 100 dollar bills..It al ends up out of the realms of our imagination.
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cengland0
(357 days ago)He never said what a thousand (1,000) is in the long system. Since it's based on (1,000,000) to the powers of 1,2,3, etc., it completely skips the thousands and it's an extremely important stepping point.
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Guest: Richard J
(357 days ago)
1 thousand is 1 million to the power 1/2. Then, 1 thousand million is 1 million to the power 1.5. Try it out on a (scientific) calculator.
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cengland0
(334 days ago) Latest comment: I agree that's the correct math but it's not very friendly when you have to use fractional powers to derive important numbers like a thousand.
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London1
(357 days ago)All because of one stupid American, no doubt!
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