power of ten
Base-ten exponential value
A power of ten is ten multiplied by itself a specified number of times: ten to the third power (10³) equals one thousand.
Powers of ten form the basis of scientific notation, where very large or small numbers are expressed as a coefficient times a power of ten: The speed of light is about 3 × 10⁸ meters per second.
Figuratively, orders of magnitude and powers of ten describe dramatic differences in scale.
- exponentSuperscript showing power
- magnitudeSize or scale
- scaleMeasure of relative size
- billionOne thousand million
- millionOne thousand thousands
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- large numbersmillion, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion
- metric prefixeskilo, mega, giga, peta, milli
power of tenprime number
Integer with two divisors
prime · irrational number · random number · pi · e
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