150,000,000 = 1.5 x 10^8
The first insects appeared in the Devonian, over three hundred fifty million years ago.
3 significant figures. (The zero after the 5 doesn't count.) 4 significant figures if the zero after the 5 does count. A good way of expressing three thousand four hundred fifty with three, four, or five significant figures is with scientific notation: 3.45 * 103 3.450 * 103 3.4500 * 103
A gigametre, or Gm, is one billion metres, 1 000 000 000m. Because a kilometre is one thousand metres, a gigametre is one million kilometres. The earth is , on average, one hundred and fifty million kilomteres from the sun, so the average distance from the earth to the sun is 1.5 Gm.
First copy and paste in the number so you don't make a transcription error: = 5859000000000 = Then add commas every three places, starting from the right: = 5,859,000,000,000 = Starting from the right the first number to the left of the comma (0) represents thousands; to the left of the next comma (0), millions; to the left of the third comma (9), billions; then trillions. So, in words, the number is: "five trillion, eight hundred and fifty nine billion." And that's it: there are no millions, no thousands, no hundreds tens or ones.
Scientific notation is a way of writing large and small numbers