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本文介绍了非常大的数和非常小的数的表示方法，以及它们在实际应用中的例子，如距离单位、质量单位和能量单位等。

VERY LARGE NUMBERS:

*"in words"*			*"in words"*
*One*	10⁰	1.	"ten to the zero"
ten	10¹	10.	"ten to the one"
hundred	10²	100.	"ten to the two"
*thousand*	10³	1,000.	"ten to the three"
ten thousand	10⁴	10,000.	"ten to the four"
hundred thousand	10⁵	100,000.	"ten to the five"
million	10⁶	1,000,000.	"ten to the six"
ten million	10⁷	10,000,000.	"ten to the seven"
hundred million	10⁸	100,000,000.	"ten to the eight"
billion	10⁹	1,000,000,000.	"ten to the nine"
ten billion	10¹⁰	10,000,000,000.	"ten to the ten"
hundred billion	10¹¹	100,000,000,000.	"ten to the eleven"
*trillion*	10¹²	1,000,000,000,000.	"ten to the twelve"
ten trillion	10¹³	10,000,000,000,000.	"ten to the thirteen"
hundred trillion	10¹⁴	100,000,000,000,000.	"ten to the fourteen"

Names are on threes... on 3, 6, 9 (thousand, million, billion). ,000,

The names "billion" and "trillion" mean different things in different countries. This is the US version.
There are a few more names after "trillion", but they are almost never used.

VERY SMALL NUMBERS:

*"in words"*			*"in words"*
*One*	10⁰	1.	"ten to the zero"
tenth	10^-1	0.1	"ten to the minus one"
hundredth	10^-2	0.01.	"ten to the minus two"
*thousandth*	10^-3	0.001.	"ten to the minus three"
ten thousand	10^-4	0.0001.	"ten to the minus four"
hundred thousandth	10^-5	0.00001.	"ten to the minus five"
millionth	10^-6	0.000001	"ten to the minus six"
ten millionth	10^-7	0.0000001.	"ten to the minus seven"
hundred millionth	10^-8	0.00000001.	"ten to the minus eight"
billionth	10^-9	0.000000001.	"ten to the minus nine"
ten billionth	10^-10	0.0000000001.	"ten to the minus ten"
hundred billionth	10^-11	0.00000000001.	"ten to the minus eleven"
*trillionth*	10^-12	0.000000000001	"ten to the minus twelve"
ten trillionth	10^-13	0.0000000000001.	"ten to the minus thirteen"
hundred trillionth	10^-14	0.00000000000001.	"ten to the minus fourteen"

EXAMPLES of LARGE NUMBERS:

1 AU = 150,000,000 km = 1.5x l0⁸ km = 9.2 x l0⁷miles
Mass of the Sun = 1 Solar Mass = 2.0 x 10³⁰ kg
1 kilometer      = 1 km = 10³ m ~ 5/8 mile

Energies of Fermilab's Chain of Accelerators:
Cockroft Walton: 750 KeV (Kilo-electron volts, thousand electron volts)
    = 750 times 10³ electron volts
Linac (Linear Accelerator): 400 MeV ( Mega electron volts, million electron volts)
    = 400 times 10⁶ electron volts
Booster, Recycler, Debuncher, Accumulator accelerators:
          8 GeV (Giga-electron volts, billion (U.S.) electron volts)
        = 8 times 10⁹ electron volts
Main Injector: 150 GeV = 150 x = 1.5 x 10¹¹ electron volts
Tevatron: 0.98 TeV (Tera electron volts, trillion electron volts) = nearly 10¹² electron volts 10⁹ electron volts

EXAMPLES of SMALL NUMBERS:

1 centimeter     = 1 cm = 10^-2 m ~ 2/5 inch width of a pen
1 millimeter     = 1 mm = 10^-3 m ~ 1/25 inch width of lead in pencil
1 micrometer = 1 micron = 10^-6
           High power microscopes look at objects as small as a few micrometers
1 microsecond = 10^-6 seconds
          The lifetime of a mu-lepton is about 2 microseconds
1 nanosecond = 10^-9 seconds
          A pi-meson lives on the average for 26 nanoseconds

A particle at the speed of light travels about one foot in one nanosecond.