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decimal approximations of large numbers

Posted 21 days ago

I apologize if my question seems redundant. There are numbers so big it exceeds the space we have on this earth. I have read up an article on it and it stated that our earth is estimated to only 10^50 atoms wide.
I noticed that starting at 96717311574016^8^16 Wolfram alpha no longer computes decimal approximations; it only gives me a power of ten representation. A power of ten representation isn't useful in knowing the numbers digits to a given precision. Has it have to do the fact that we only occupy so much space on this planet?
Thanks a lot for the help I may get!
This may be my second to last post.

POSTED BY: Mark Raygorodsky
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