June 12, 2020
#2319: Large Number Formats explain
[A panel only with text. At the top there is four lines of explanatory text. Below that are 2 columns with 5 rows of number formats. Each numerical format is in red, with black text explaining the format below it.]
What the way you write large numbers says about you
(Using the approximate current distance to Jupiter in inches as an example)
25,259,974,097,204
Normal person
25 trillion
Normal person
25 billion
Old British person
2.526x1013
Scientist
2.525997x1013
Scientist trying to avoid rounding up
2.526e13 or 2.526*10^13
Software developer
25,259,973,541,888
Software developer who forgot about floats
1013
Astronomer
{∅,{∅},{∅,{∅}},{∅,{∅},{…
Set theorist
1,262,998,704,860 score and four
Abraham Lincoln