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I'm reading arithmetic for the practical man (very behind in math) and I'm stuck on finding the amount of ciphers in a number. for context, "In arithmetic, a cipher is an old-fashioned term for the zero digit or any Arabic numeral." The source is Google AI which I know is not the best source but is the only definition I can find that matches to this book.
this is the specific part I can't understand, "a very large number such as 1,000,000,000, which is 1 followed by nine ciphers which is typically written in the form of 10 to the power of 9." my problems are right here he puts the little number but I don't know if it is the power or exponent or something else and then I do not know how to calculate such a number to find how many ciphers there are. the link to where I'm reading this is https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015053141936&seq=24.
my idea is that the little number is based on how many ciphers would be in the number if you just looked at how many zeros are in an untouched 7-digit number like 1,000,000 instead of 1,356,782 but I doubt this highly. sorry if this is jumbled up, my brain can barely make sense of this.
this is the specific part I can't understand, "a very large number such as 1,000,000,000, which is 1 followed by nine ciphers which is typically written in the form of 10 to the power of 9." my problems are right here he puts the little number but I don't know if it is the power or exponent or something else and then I do not know how to calculate such a number to find how many ciphers there are. the link to where I'm reading this is https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015053141936&seq=24.
my idea is that the little number is based on how many ciphers would be in the number if you just looked at how many zeros are in an untouched 7-digit number like 1,000,000 instead of 1,356,782 but I doubt this highly. sorry if this is jumbled up, my brain can barely make sense of this.