What would be the correct way of writing 10⁻³⁶ second into words?
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
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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?
numbers
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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
add a comment |
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
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
@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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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
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
|
show 10 more comments
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
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
|
show 10 more comments
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
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
|
show 10 more comments
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
6
6
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
1
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
@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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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