#2319: Large Number Formats

[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