Ron Hawkins wrote:
Twenty Three Quadrillion? Looks like Twenty Three Thousand Billion to me.
Well, my understanding is that American English uses terms
a little differently than the-rest-of-the-world English.
An interesting article on Wikipedia points out that Americans
generally use the "short scale" while residents of the UK generally
use the "long scale". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
The article goes on to point out that in 1974 the government of the
UK officially abandoned the long scale in favor of the short scale.
In short scale terms, then, we have:
-term- -sample value- -ISO prefix-
million 1,000,000 mega-
billion 1,000,000,000 giga-
trillion 1,000,000,000,000 tera-
quadrillion 1,000,000,000,000,000 peta-
quintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000 exa-
sextillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 zetta-
So 23,148,855,308,184,500 would be read as
23 quadrillion, 148 trillion, 855 billion, 308 million,
184 thousand 500
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a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500
Number doesn't seem to be any special hex value.
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