Wednesday, December 1, 2010

How do you read 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in Chinese?

This is for anyone who has taught large numbers to Taiwanese students.  As you may know, the Chinese way of saying numbers is extremely difficult.  When given a huge number, students will try and muddle it out for ages.  

This seeks to help out BUT it still looks complicated.  Can any Chinese speakers check it out and see?

In fact, I'm very interested to know how to say this in Chinese too:
123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890

Go for it!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890
=1拾2穰3仟4佰5拾6秭7仟8佰9拾垓1仟2佰3拾4京5仟6佰7拾8兆9仟零1拾2億3仟4佰5拾6萬7仟8佰9拾

Anonymous said...

how do you say it in ENGLISH fercrissakes? I think heptillion is after quadrillion, but when do we get googleplexes?

Anonymous said...

In Chinese it is Shi Gou. I have to say, I wouldn't even know where to look up how to say the number in English. As far as Chinese numbers being difficult, it is Chinese 1 English 0

corey said...

English is just like Chinese, except they add a fourth digit to each sequence of numbers. English counts by ones, tens, and hundreds whilst Chinese adds the thousands place to each section. But, it works the same: do the places and then add the final place marker.

Googol is 10^100, and a googolplex is 10^googol.

In English:

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 undecillion

123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890 = one-hundred twenty-three octillion four-hundred fifty-six septillion seven-hundred eighty-nine sextillion twelve quintillion three-hundred forty-five quadrillion six-hundred seventy-eight trillion nine-hundred one billion two-hundred thirty-four million five-hundred sixty-seven thousand eight-hundred ninety

I memorized to tredecillion for showing off when teaching numbers to my adult students (who try to give me long, difficult numbers) :P

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