Cold knowledge fever, I am Zhuge Long, a partial knowledge sharing officer. Today I will introduce you to more than 100 million counting units. After reading this content, you can be very cultured and show off your wealth.
What is your salary?
Not much, not much, not a ditch!
Now the whole world uses Arabic numerals for counting, which is simple and intuitive. However, if this number is very large, the Arabic numeral count will be very long. Some figures are insensitive, and poverty limits imagination. Maybe the number "100000" will take half a day.
At the stage of 1 00000, we have already started counting,10000000, followed by100000000.
Counting hundreds of millions seems to have reached the ceiling of human counting, and it is about to talk about billions and billions.
What about after trillion? Billion? We dare not imagine that the number is too large and meaningless to our real life.
For example, the currency issued in contemporary Zimbabwe is a vivid example. The country has issued the largest denomination of 10 14 paper money, and we can only see such paper money when we are in Tomb-Sweeping Day every year.
However, one day we will conquer the universe of stars, and those astronomical figures will eventually enter our daily life and go down in history.
And when one day you travel daily, open the map of Gaode and locate the route of Mars, how do you let the intelligent voice broadcast this kilometer?
Therefore, the counting unit after 100 million will come in handy.
Mega, Jing, Yi, Yi, Gou ... These are all counting units after 100 million, seemingly ordinary words, but the numbers they represent are more and more beyond human imagination.
In ancient times, it was said that 1 trillion was 1 trillion, and later it was agreed in decimal that 1 trillion was equal to 1 trillion, 1 trillion was equal to 1 trillion.
So, what is 1 ditch? 10 to the 32nd power, that is, 32 zeros after 1 with no decimal point in the middle. This astronomical figure, perhaps today's human beings, can only be truly felt by counting the stars in the universe several times.
However, the ditch is not the end of China's counting unit, and there is another flow, positive and negative. This method of counting large numbers first appeared in a mathematical monograph Numerology Note compiled by Xu Yue in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
So, is the "loading capacity" the maximum? Not exactly. We also have the pole, 10 to the 48 th power. Perhaps what Chen Kaige's The Promise wants to express is this profound philosophical thinking.
"Pole" has also become the largest counting unit in the field of ancient mathematics in China. But it's not over yet, because we soon introduced boundless Buddhism.
In this brand-new Buddhist system, there are Ganges sand, A Sheng Zuo, Yu Na, incredible, boundless, big, boundless, countless, ignorant, mindless and senseless.
Originally, this number may be a different word created in Buddhist scriptures to describe "big but many", but later generations attached specific values to these words.
As early as the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Shijie, a mathematician in China, absorbed these large numbers into his own arithmetic system in his book Arithmetic Enlightenment.
In his mathematical system, 1 ditch is equal to the 88th power of 10; 1 is extremely equal to the power of 120. The Buddhist saying "incredible" is equal to 10 to the power of 152.
In modern times, a foreign mathematician also invented a counting unit-"Gugor", which is equal to the power of 100.
This is also the origin of Google's famous English name. It is conceivable that the ambition of Google search is much greater than that of Baidu.
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