What would be the correct way of writing 10⁻³⁶ second into words?












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one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.




I can write one 'undecillionth' of a second, but I don't feel that many people would imagine the weight of the said term like they can with millionth to trillionth?










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  • What you have reads okay to me, assuming the information is correct.
    – ralph.m
    11 hours ago










  • I guess only Carl Sagan said things like "a billionth of a trilliionth" in a vain attempt to seem more intelligible.
    – GEdgar
    3 hours ago










  • When speaking to people who might not be familiar with exponentiation, it would be far more considerate of your audience to say something like One part in ten followed by 35 zeroes](google.com/…)
    – FumbleFingers
    35 mins ago










  • ...where of course you could save yourself a bit of maths with One part in one followed by 36 zeroes, but there aren't so many written instances of that version, simply because it's less "accessible" to the non-mathematically-minded.
    – FumbleFingers
    34 mins ago


















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I tried Google, and I couldn't find the answer, so I have to have ask this question here. Is this correct?




one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.




I can write one 'undecillionth' of a second, but I don't feel that many people would imagine the weight of the said term like they can with millionth to trillionth?










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  • What you have reads okay to me, assuming the information is correct.
    – ralph.m
    11 hours ago










  • I guess only Carl Sagan said things like "a billionth of a trilliionth" in a vain attempt to seem more intelligible.
    – GEdgar
    3 hours ago










  • When speaking to people who might not be familiar with exponentiation, it would be far more considerate of your audience to say something like One part in ten followed by 35 zeroes](google.com/…)
    – FumbleFingers
    35 mins ago










  • ...where of course you could save yourself a bit of maths with One part in one followed by 36 zeroes, but there aren't so many written instances of that version, simply because it's less "accessible" to the non-mathematically-minded.
    – FumbleFingers
    34 mins ago
















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I tried Google, and I couldn't find the answer, so I have to have ask this question here. Is this correct?




one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.




I can write one 'undecillionth' of a second, but I don't feel that many people would imagine the weight of the said term like they can with millionth to trillionth?










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I tried Google, and I couldn't find the answer, so I have to have ask this question here. Is this correct?




one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.




I can write one 'undecillionth' of a second, but I don't feel that many people would imagine the weight of the said term like they can with millionth to trillionth?







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  • What you have reads okay to me, assuming the information is correct.
    – ralph.m
    11 hours ago










  • I guess only Carl Sagan said things like "a billionth of a trilliionth" in a vain attempt to seem more intelligible.
    – GEdgar
    3 hours ago










  • When speaking to people who might not be familiar with exponentiation, it would be far more considerate of your audience to say something like One part in ten followed by 35 zeroes](google.com/…)
    – FumbleFingers
    35 mins ago










  • ...where of course you could save yourself a bit of maths with One part in one followed by 36 zeroes, but there aren't so many written instances of that version, simply because it's less "accessible" to the non-mathematically-minded.
    – FumbleFingers
    34 mins ago




















  • What you have reads okay to me, assuming the information is correct.
    – ralph.m
    11 hours ago










  • I guess only Carl Sagan said things like "a billionth of a trilliionth" in a vain attempt to seem more intelligible.
    – GEdgar
    3 hours ago










  • When speaking to people who might not be familiar with exponentiation, it would be far more considerate of your audience to say something like One part in ten followed by 35 zeroes](google.com/…)
    – FumbleFingers
    35 mins ago










  • ...where of course you could save yourself a bit of maths with One part in one followed by 36 zeroes, but there aren't so many written instances of that version, simply because it's less "accessible" to the non-mathematically-minded.
    – FumbleFingers
    34 mins ago


















What you have reads okay to me, assuming the information is correct.
– ralph.m
11 hours ago




What you have reads okay to me, assuming the information is correct.
– ralph.m
11 hours ago












I guess only Carl Sagan said things like "a billionth of a trilliionth" in a vain attempt to seem more intelligible.
– GEdgar
3 hours ago




I guess only Carl Sagan said things like "a billionth of a trilliionth" in a vain attempt to seem more intelligible.
– GEdgar
3 hours ago












When speaking to people who might not be familiar with exponentiation, it would be far more considerate of your audience to say something like One part in ten followed by 35 zeroes](google.com/…)
– FumbleFingers
35 mins ago




When speaking to people who might not be familiar with exponentiation, it would be far more considerate of your audience to say something like One part in ten followed by 35 zeroes](google.com/…)
– FumbleFingers
35 mins ago












...where of course you could save yourself a bit of maths with One part in one followed by 36 zeroes, but there aren't so many written instances of that version, simply because it's less "accessible" to the non-mathematically-minded.
– FumbleFingers
34 mins ago






...where of course you could save yourself a bit of maths with One part in one followed by 36 zeroes, but there aren't so many written instances of that version, simply because it's less "accessible" to the non-mathematically-minded.
– FumbleFingers
34 mins ago












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Note, "negative" as used in this answer is interchangeable with "minus". Thanks to a number of commenters pointing this out, NGram Viewer and Google search both show "minus" as being more frequent than "negative". "Negative" may be more common in formal use.



Exponentiation such as you've shown is usually said, in your example either:




Ten raised to the power of negative 36




or




Ten to the power of negative 36




or




Negative 36th power of 10 (less common)




or




Ten to the negative 36th power




or more casually as:




Ten to the negative 36th




Notice that in some cases we usually use the cardinal number (36) whereas in other cases we use the ordinal number (36th) when referring to the exponent. Although what I've listed are the more common ways, the cardinal and ordinal forms aren't absolutely universal. For example, you may hear:




10 to the negative 36




However, in my opinion this is much less common.



_




The exponent is usually shown as a superscript to the right of the
base. In that case, b^n is called "b raised to the n-th power", "b
raised to the power of n", or "the n-th power of b".
Wikipedia:
Exponentiation




Notice how it's said in this Khan Academy video, it's said in the shorter way I described, ie., he says ten to the twenty-third.



Specifically in your case of seconds, it would be said:



Ten to the negative 36th seconds

or

Ten raised to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

Ten to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

36th power of 10 seconds (somewhat less common in my opinion, I don't recommend this)




Is this correct?



one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.



Yes, that's correct, and depending on how you want to convey your information, that may be preferable to you. In one sense it puts into perspective how large or small of a number it is. People may be able to imagine numbers as big as a million or billion, so you can express it in terms of these units if you want. Equivalently you could say:




One quintillionth of a quintillionth of a second




It's up to you how to express it.



Finally, about the word "undecillion" or "undecillionth", I would advise against using that unless comprehension is not important. Firstly, it's an uncommon word. Secondly, as shown by the dictionary definition below, it can be two different numbers, I assume as a result of the differences between the short and long scales which (historically) separated Europe and the US.




undecillion
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1
followed by 36 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 66 zeros.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary







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    We often say "ten to the minus thirty-six" for that amount where I come from (UK).
    – Michael Harvey
    10 hours ago










  • @Jeeped Are you saying that my answer should have been 1E-36 or that my answer misleadingly implies that 10^-36 is scientific notation? In other words that 10^-36 is not scientific notation but (1 x 10^-36) is? If so, I'll change that part.
    – Zebrafish
    9 hours ago












  • That's the way I understand it. In scientific notation, the first number is between 1 and 9.999. Iit's 1x10^36 or 1E-36. (sorry about the -37 eatlier, I was on the wrong track)
    – Jeeped
    9 hours ago








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    @MichaelHarvey Ten to the minus thirty-six sounds a lot more natural to me too. (I'm Canadian, but I don't know if this has anything to do with regionalism.) Using the words power and negative seems unnecessarily long and formal. However, I suppose this could be a case where writing it and speaking it are distinct things. As well as the level of formality you want to achieve.
    – Jason Bassford
    1 hour ago













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Note, "negative" as used in this answer is interchangeable with "minus". Thanks to a number of commenters pointing this out, NGram Viewer and Google search both show "minus" as being more frequent than "negative". "Negative" may be more common in formal use.



Exponentiation such as you've shown is usually said, in your example either:




Ten raised to the power of negative 36




or




Ten to the power of negative 36




or




Negative 36th power of 10 (less common)




or




Ten to the negative 36th power




or more casually as:




Ten to the negative 36th




Notice that in some cases we usually use the cardinal number (36) whereas in other cases we use the ordinal number (36th) when referring to the exponent. Although what I've listed are the more common ways, the cardinal and ordinal forms aren't absolutely universal. For example, you may hear:




10 to the negative 36




However, in my opinion this is much less common.



_




The exponent is usually shown as a superscript to the right of the
base. In that case, b^n is called "b raised to the n-th power", "b
raised to the power of n", or "the n-th power of b".
Wikipedia:
Exponentiation




Notice how it's said in this Khan Academy video, it's said in the shorter way I described, ie., he says ten to the twenty-third.



Specifically in your case of seconds, it would be said:



Ten to the negative 36th seconds

or

Ten raised to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

Ten to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

36th power of 10 seconds (somewhat less common in my opinion, I don't recommend this)




Is this correct?



one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.



Yes, that's correct, and depending on how you want to convey your information, that may be preferable to you. In one sense it puts into perspective how large or small of a number it is. People may be able to imagine numbers as big as a million or billion, so you can express it in terms of these units if you want. Equivalently you could say:




One quintillionth of a quintillionth of a second




It's up to you how to express it.



Finally, about the word "undecillion" or "undecillionth", I would advise against using that unless comprehension is not important. Firstly, it's an uncommon word. Secondly, as shown by the dictionary definition below, it can be two different numbers, I assume as a result of the differences between the short and long scales which (historically) separated Europe and the US.




undecillion
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1
followed by 36 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 66 zeros.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary







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    We often say "ten to the minus thirty-six" for that amount where I come from (UK).
    – Michael Harvey
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  • @Jeeped Are you saying that my answer should have been 1E-36 or that my answer misleadingly implies that 10^-36 is scientific notation? In other words that 10^-36 is not scientific notation but (1 x 10^-36) is? If so, I'll change that part.
    – Zebrafish
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  • That's the way I understand it. In scientific notation, the first number is between 1 and 9.999. Iit's 1x10^36 or 1E-36. (sorry about the -37 eatlier, I was on the wrong track)
    – Jeeped
    9 hours ago








  • 1




    @MichaelHarvey Ten to the minus thirty-six sounds a lot more natural to me too. (I'm Canadian, but I don't know if this has anything to do with regionalism.) Using the words power and negative seems unnecessarily long and formal. However, I suppose this could be a case where writing it and speaking it are distinct things. As well as the level of formality you want to achieve.
    – Jason Bassford
    1 hour ago


















1














Note, "negative" as used in this answer is interchangeable with "minus". Thanks to a number of commenters pointing this out, NGram Viewer and Google search both show "minus" as being more frequent than "negative". "Negative" may be more common in formal use.



Exponentiation such as you've shown is usually said, in your example either:




Ten raised to the power of negative 36




or




Ten to the power of negative 36




or




Negative 36th power of 10 (less common)




or




Ten to the negative 36th power




or more casually as:




Ten to the negative 36th




Notice that in some cases we usually use the cardinal number (36) whereas in other cases we use the ordinal number (36th) when referring to the exponent. Although what I've listed are the more common ways, the cardinal and ordinal forms aren't absolutely universal. For example, you may hear:




10 to the negative 36




However, in my opinion this is much less common.



_




The exponent is usually shown as a superscript to the right of the
base. In that case, b^n is called "b raised to the n-th power", "b
raised to the power of n", or "the n-th power of b".
Wikipedia:
Exponentiation




Notice how it's said in this Khan Academy video, it's said in the shorter way I described, ie., he says ten to the twenty-third.



Specifically in your case of seconds, it would be said:



Ten to the negative 36th seconds

or

Ten raised to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

Ten to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

36th power of 10 seconds (somewhat less common in my opinion, I don't recommend this)




Is this correct?



one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.



Yes, that's correct, and depending on how you want to convey your information, that may be preferable to you. In one sense it puts into perspective how large or small of a number it is. People may be able to imagine numbers as big as a million or billion, so you can express it in terms of these units if you want. Equivalently you could say:




One quintillionth of a quintillionth of a second




It's up to you how to express it.



Finally, about the word "undecillion" or "undecillionth", I would advise against using that unless comprehension is not important. Firstly, it's an uncommon word. Secondly, as shown by the dictionary definition below, it can be two different numbers, I assume as a result of the differences between the short and long scales which (historically) separated Europe and the US.




undecillion
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1
followed by 36 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 66 zeros.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary







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    We often say "ten to the minus thirty-six" for that amount where I come from (UK).
    – Michael Harvey
    10 hours ago










  • @Jeeped Are you saying that my answer should have been 1E-36 or that my answer misleadingly implies that 10^-36 is scientific notation? In other words that 10^-36 is not scientific notation but (1 x 10^-36) is? If so, I'll change that part.
    – Zebrafish
    9 hours ago












  • That's the way I understand it. In scientific notation, the first number is between 1 and 9.999. Iit's 1x10^36 or 1E-36. (sorry about the -37 eatlier, I was on the wrong track)
    – Jeeped
    9 hours ago








  • 1




    @MichaelHarvey Ten to the minus thirty-six sounds a lot more natural to me too. (I'm Canadian, but I don't know if this has anything to do with regionalism.) Using the words power and negative seems unnecessarily long and formal. However, I suppose this could be a case where writing it and speaking it are distinct things. As well as the level of formality you want to achieve.
    – Jason Bassford
    1 hour ago
















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1








1






Note, "negative" as used in this answer is interchangeable with "minus". Thanks to a number of commenters pointing this out, NGram Viewer and Google search both show "minus" as being more frequent than "negative". "Negative" may be more common in formal use.



Exponentiation such as you've shown is usually said, in your example either:




Ten raised to the power of negative 36




or




Ten to the power of negative 36




or




Negative 36th power of 10 (less common)




or




Ten to the negative 36th power




or more casually as:




Ten to the negative 36th




Notice that in some cases we usually use the cardinal number (36) whereas in other cases we use the ordinal number (36th) when referring to the exponent. Although what I've listed are the more common ways, the cardinal and ordinal forms aren't absolutely universal. For example, you may hear:




10 to the negative 36




However, in my opinion this is much less common.



_




The exponent is usually shown as a superscript to the right of the
base. In that case, b^n is called "b raised to the n-th power", "b
raised to the power of n", or "the n-th power of b".
Wikipedia:
Exponentiation




Notice how it's said in this Khan Academy video, it's said in the shorter way I described, ie., he says ten to the twenty-third.



Specifically in your case of seconds, it would be said:



Ten to the negative 36th seconds

or

Ten raised to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

Ten to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

36th power of 10 seconds (somewhat less common in my opinion, I don't recommend this)




Is this correct?



one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.



Yes, that's correct, and depending on how you want to convey your information, that may be preferable to you. In one sense it puts into perspective how large or small of a number it is. People may be able to imagine numbers as big as a million or billion, so you can express it in terms of these units if you want. Equivalently you could say:




One quintillionth of a quintillionth of a second




It's up to you how to express it.



Finally, about the word "undecillion" or "undecillionth", I would advise against using that unless comprehension is not important. Firstly, it's an uncommon word. Secondly, as shown by the dictionary definition below, it can be two different numbers, I assume as a result of the differences between the short and long scales which (historically) separated Europe and the US.




undecillion
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1
followed by 36 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 66 zeros.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary







share|improve this answer














Note, "negative" as used in this answer is interchangeable with "minus". Thanks to a number of commenters pointing this out, NGram Viewer and Google search both show "minus" as being more frequent than "negative". "Negative" may be more common in formal use.



Exponentiation such as you've shown is usually said, in your example either:




Ten raised to the power of negative 36




or




Ten to the power of negative 36




or




Negative 36th power of 10 (less common)




or




Ten to the negative 36th power




or more casually as:




Ten to the negative 36th




Notice that in some cases we usually use the cardinal number (36) whereas in other cases we use the ordinal number (36th) when referring to the exponent. Although what I've listed are the more common ways, the cardinal and ordinal forms aren't absolutely universal. For example, you may hear:




10 to the negative 36




However, in my opinion this is much less common.



_




The exponent is usually shown as a superscript to the right of the
base. In that case, b^n is called "b raised to the n-th power", "b
raised to the power of n", or "the n-th power of b".
Wikipedia:
Exponentiation




Notice how it's said in this Khan Academy video, it's said in the shorter way I described, ie., he says ten to the twenty-third.



Specifically in your case of seconds, it would be said:



Ten to the negative 36th seconds

or

Ten raised to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

Ten to the power of negative 36 seconds

or

36th power of 10 seconds (somewhat less common in my opinion, I don't recommend this)




Is this correct?



one millionth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.



Yes, that's correct, and depending on how you want to convey your information, that may be preferable to you. In one sense it puts into perspective how large or small of a number it is. People may be able to imagine numbers as big as a million or billion, so you can express it in terms of these units if you want. Equivalently you could say:




One quintillionth of a quintillionth of a second




It's up to you how to express it.



Finally, about the word "undecillion" or "undecillionth", I would advise against using that unless comprehension is not important. Firstly, it's an uncommon word. Secondly, as shown by the dictionary definition below, it can be two different numbers, I assume as a result of the differences between the short and long scales which (historically) separated Europe and the US.




undecillion
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1
followed by 36 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 66 zeros.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary








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  • Thank you so much, you took out some of your valuable time for 'me' to answer my query. You're awesome!
    – Palwinder Singh
    10 hours ago






  • 6




    We often say "ten to the minus thirty-six" for that amount where I come from (UK).
    – Michael Harvey
    10 hours ago










  • @Jeeped Are you saying that my answer should have been 1E-36 or that my answer misleadingly implies that 10^-36 is scientific notation? In other words that 10^-36 is not scientific notation but (1 x 10^-36) is? If so, I'll change that part.
    – Zebrafish
    9 hours ago












  • That's the way I understand it. In scientific notation, the first number is between 1 and 9.999. Iit's 1x10^36 or 1E-36. (sorry about the -37 eatlier, I was on the wrong track)
    – Jeeped
    9 hours ago








  • 1




    @MichaelHarvey Ten to the minus thirty-six sounds a lot more natural to me too. (I'm Canadian, but I don't know if this has anything to do with regionalism.) Using the words power and negative seems unnecessarily long and formal. However, I suppose this could be a case where writing it and speaking it are distinct things. As well as the level of formality you want to achieve.
    – Jason Bassford
    1 hour ago




















  • Thank you so much, you took out some of your valuable time for 'me' to answer my query. You're awesome!
    – Palwinder Singh
    10 hours ago






  • 6




    We often say "ten to the minus thirty-six" for that amount where I come from (UK).
    – Michael Harvey
    10 hours ago










  • @Jeeped Are you saying that my answer should have been 1E-36 or that my answer misleadingly implies that 10^-36 is scientific notation? In other words that 10^-36 is not scientific notation but (1 x 10^-36) is? If so, I'll change that part.
    – Zebrafish
    9 hours ago












  • That's the way I understand it. In scientific notation, the first number is between 1 and 9.999. Iit's 1x10^36 or 1E-36. (sorry about the -37 eatlier, I was on the wrong track)
    – Jeeped
    9 hours ago








  • 1




    @MichaelHarvey Ten to the minus thirty-six sounds a lot more natural to me too. (I'm Canadian, but I don't know if this has anything to do with regionalism.) Using the words power and negative seems unnecessarily long and formal. However, I suppose this could be a case where writing it and speaking it are distinct things. As well as the level of formality you want to achieve.
    – Jason Bassford
    1 hour ago


















Thank you so much, you took out some of your valuable time for 'me' to answer my query. You're awesome!
– Palwinder Singh
10 hours ago




Thank you so much, you took out some of your valuable time for 'me' to answer my query. You're awesome!
– Palwinder Singh
10 hours ago




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We often say "ten to the minus thirty-six" for that amount where I come from (UK).
– Michael Harvey
10 hours ago




We often say "ten to the minus thirty-six" for that amount where I come from (UK).
– Michael Harvey
10 hours ago












@Jeeped Are you saying that my answer should have been 1E-36 or that my answer misleadingly implies that 10^-36 is scientific notation? In other words that 10^-36 is not scientific notation but (1 x 10^-36) is? If so, I'll change that part.
– Zebrafish
9 hours ago






@Jeeped Are you saying that my answer should have been 1E-36 or that my answer misleadingly implies that 10^-36 is scientific notation? In other words that 10^-36 is not scientific notation but (1 x 10^-36) is? If so, I'll change that part.
– Zebrafish
9 hours ago














That's the way I understand it. In scientific notation, the first number is between 1 and 9.999. Iit's 1x10^36 or 1E-36. (sorry about the -37 eatlier, I was on the wrong track)
– Jeeped
9 hours ago






That's the way I understand it. In scientific notation, the first number is between 1 and 9.999. Iit's 1x10^36 or 1E-36. (sorry about the -37 eatlier, I was on the wrong track)
– Jeeped
9 hours ago






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@MichaelHarvey Ten to the minus thirty-six sounds a lot more natural to me too. (I'm Canadian, but I don't know if this has anything to do with regionalism.) Using the words power and negative seems unnecessarily long and formal. However, I suppose this could be a case where writing it and speaking it are distinct things. As well as the level of formality you want to achieve.
– Jason Bassford
1 hour ago






@MichaelHarvey Ten to the minus thirty-six sounds a lot more natural to me too. (I'm Canadian, but I don't know if this has anything to do with regionalism.) Using the words power and negative seems unnecessarily long and formal. However, I suppose this could be a case where writing it and speaking it are distinct things. As well as the level of formality you want to achieve.
– Jason Bassford
1 hour ago












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