Thursday, January 12, 2017

reading aloud - How to read this mathematics value: 10^9


I have this value


N = 10^9 (9 in superscript)


How to read that in English? translating from my native language, I would say



Ten base of nine.



but is that really correct?



Answer



Formally it is



Ten to the power of nine


but more commonly:


Ten to the nine or Ten to the ninth


The use of Base 9 has a very different meaning.


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