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Friday, July 14, 2006
Largest Number
What's the largest number you can make with just two digits?
I would say the alrgest is 9E9...that's two digits (plus one letter) and is 9 billion.
Along the same lines, smallest would be 1E-9...one billionth. (Unless you want to include negative numbers, in which case it would be -9E-9, negative nine billion)
I was avoiding letters, so I came up with 9^9 = 387,420,489. You can go negative for the smallest number (I was thinking closest to zero, rather than negative).
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I would say the alrgest is 9E9...that's two digits (plus one letter) and is 9 billion.
ReplyDeleteAlong the same lines, smallest would be 1E-9...one billionth. (Unless you want to include negative numbers, in which case it would be -9E-9, negative nine billion)
rather it would be -9E9 for negative nine billion...
ReplyDeleteIn that case, you could just use 9T (T for terra)
ReplyDeleteI was avoiding letters, so I came up with 9^9 = 387,420,489. You can go negative for the smallest number (I was thinking closest to zero, rather than negative).
ReplyDeleteBut your answers make sense to me.