Have you ever heard someone refer to a “million billion” of something? Is that more or less than a “billion million?” In this video, I’ll show you how to write down these numbers and figure out which one is larger.
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Did one of these numbers sound bigger to you? To me, they’re both a strange way to say the exact same number – which is actually a quadrillion!
Exercises
Write out each number long-ways (with all the zeros written out):
- A thousand million
- A thousand billion
- Ten million
- A hundred billion
Write the exponential form (ten and a superscript) of the following numbers
- A thousand million
- A thousand billion
- Ten million
- A hundred billion
Determine the exponents of the following number if written in the form; ”ten and a superscript.”
- 10,000,000,000
- 100