I am not very good at maths. I would like a /sci/entist to explain what 10^10^30 means, or preferable write it down
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/exponent.htm
the bait, fuck back to /b/
We aren't gonna be able to write it down for you. It's a 1 with 10^30 zeros after it. That is, 1 followed by 1000000000000000000000000000000 zeros. You don't really need to think of the size of a number to work with it though.
>>7708172
is there a differenece between (10^10)^30 as opposed to 10^(10^30)
>>7708175
Did you finish high school yet?
>>7708175
Yes. (10^10)^30 means you multiply ten tens together, giving you 10000000000; you then multiply thirty of those together, giving you 1 with 300 zeroes after it.
10^(10^30) means you multiply 10^30 tens together, giving you a 1 with 1000000000000000000000000000000 zeroes after it.
>>7708175
Well, think about it with some small numbers. What about 10^3^2? That's either (10^3)^2=(10*10*10)*(10*10*10) or 10^(3^2)=10^9=10*10*10*10*10*10*10*10*10*10. I mean you can alternatively think about it this way too: in your example, having an exponent of 10^30 and a base of 10 is going to be massively massive. Because the exponent matters so much. Whereas (10^10)^30 is obviously going to be tiny in comparison.
this is an extremely big number. To get an intuitive feel about its size think about number of grains of sand in sahara multiplied by amount of atoms in your body.
>>7708171
Bait?
Try to understand that not everything in life is bait, fucking nerd
>>7708166
You know how multiplication is like repeated addition, so 10*10 means you add 10 tens together to get 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 100?
Exponentiation, represented by ^, is like repeated multiplication. So 2^3 = 2 * 2 * 2 = 8.
So 10^10 means you multiply ten tens together. This gives you ten billion, or 1 with ten zeroes after it.
Unlike addition and multiplication, 2^3 is not the same as 3^2 - the answer depends on the order. So answering what 10^10^30 is depends on whether it's (10^10)^30 (which is absurdly large) or 10^(10^30), which is even more pointlessly huge.
(You may be wondering if there's an inverse to ^, just like multiplication has division and addition has subtraction. There is! It's called the logarithm, and it is very important in a lot of math.)
(You can also keep going: tetration is repeated exponentiation. But that gets so huge, so quick, that there's no real use for it.)
>>7708189
Fuggg :0
Word of wisdom, some things in math aren't really grasped. You're not gonna grasp the size of 10^10^30, and it doesn't matter if you do. It's like imagining 12 dimensional spaces. It's just a waste of time to try. You can learn to manipulate something without really understanding it completely.
