Question: How do you write ∞ in numerals? e.g. 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Asked by louiepop to DJ, Kyler, Mia, Mick, Peter on 1 Sep 2013.

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  1. Photo: Peter PerryPeter Perry
    answered on 1 Sep 2013:

    Short answer is you can’t – that is why we have a special symbol for it.
    Mathematicians and scientists use a special notation foer very large numbers like the one you wrote down:
    10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 = 1 followed by 55 zeros is 10^55 (it looks a little neater in proper notation). On a computer we would write it 1.0e55

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  2. Photo: Mia CobbMia Cobb
    answered on 1 Sep 2013:

    The only other way I know to write it (other than the symbol) is to use the word ‘infinity’ 🙂

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Comments

  1. Photo: louiepoplouiepop
    commented on 1 Sep 2013:

    That is pretty complex!

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  2. Photo: missedenmisseden
    commented on 3 Sep 2013:

    What if there’s like, another symbol for infinity?
    I use sometimes.

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