Dieter Ensslen asked:
> in real numbers that would be 1.15292e18?
I'm not positive what you're asking, but googling 1.15292e18 leads me to:
http://www.gpstk.org/doxygen/classgpstk_1_1BinexData_1_1MGFZI.html
which gives the precise value of the constant as 1157442765409226759x .
We could format that for human consumption as 1,157,442,765,409,226,759
or, using the Number In Words code [1], read it aloud as
one quintillion, one hundred fifty-seven quadrillion,
four hundred forty-two trillion, seven hundred
sixty-five billion, four hundred nine million, two
hundred twenty-six thousand, seven hundred fifty-nine
Now, if you're asking what a quintillion "really means", you might get a
sense of it from the "How Big is 2^64 ?" essay [2] or from the various
"Order of Magnitude" lists on Wikipedia. See the sidebar of [3].
-Dan
[1] http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Number%20in%20Words
[2] http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/2%5E64?highlight=%28universe%29
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
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