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2.3E+12

silsch567
User since 2009
Posts: 1

26 Oct. 2010

How has the number 2.3E+12 be pronounced: two point three times twelve to the power of 10? Is there also a short form?

3 comments

  • User since 2008
    Posts: 499

    27 Oct. 2010

    I keep it short: 2.3E+12 is: 'two point three to the twelfth'


    2.3E-12 would be: two point three to the MINUS twelfth


    I attended some lectures about physics and maths
    at the Berkeley University of California, and the professors always pronounced it like that.
    It's the short form of "x to the yth power"
  • User since 2008
    Posts: 6

    9 Dec. 2010

    Hi !
    and how do you pronounce (-2x + 1) ?


    thanks !
    Venus4
  • User since 2008
    Posts: 499

    9 Dec. 2010

    Very funny. Is this a serious question? No, I don't think so. But a nice try, I have to leave it to you. In that case, it wouldn't make sense to deal with math in the first place. Why bother with the pronunciation of a half-baked equation that cannot even be solved?

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