What does "8.5070592e+37" mean?

Question

When Google calc gives me numbers like this: 8.5070592e+37 How do I convert this back into a large number again.

i.e 54763097530573348543859034859834958034958983458237646357346257607032294426354547630975305733485438590348598349580349589834582376463573462576070322944263545476309753057334854385903485983495803495898345823764635734625760703229442635454763097530573348543859034859834958034958983458237646357346257607032294426354547630975305733485438590348598349580349589834582376463573462576070322944263545476309753057334854385903485983495803495898345823764635734625760703229442635454763097530573348543859034859834958034958983458237646357346257607032294426354547630975305733485438590348598349580349589834582376463573462576070322944263545476309753057334854385903485983495803495898345823764635734625760703229442635454763097530573348543859034859834958034958983458237646357346257607032294426354547630975305733485438590348598349580349589834582376463573462576070322944263545476309753057334854385903485983495803495898345823764635734625760703229442635454763097530573348543859034859834958034958983458237646357346257607032294426354

Edit: I am trying to use IntXLib in c# to convert these ascii representations back to their integer values.

Look up scientific notation. Otherwise I'm not sure this question is a good fit. — JSchlather, Mar 12 '13 at 13:50
I don't understand why this question is considered off topic. If you are intending to cast the final close vote, please instead leave a comment saying that you cancel my un-vote, unless my un-vote has been cancelled already. — MJD, Mar 12 '13 at 15:16
I also don't see why this is off-topic. I have voted to reopen. — Cheerful Parsnip, Apr 23 '13 at 00:28
See http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/6273/what-does-e-mean-in-9-0122222900391e-5 and http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/441297/e-notation-scientific-notation — Jonas Meyer, Sep 30 '13 at 01:59

MJD · Answer 1 · 2013-04-23T00:20:37.610

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e+37 means that you multiply by $10^{37}$; that is by $10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000$, which is a 1 followed by 37 zeroes.

In this case you have 8.5070592e+37, which means $85,070,592,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000$. The answer is almost certainly rounded off to the nearest 0.0000001e+e37, some of those trailing zeroes are probably something else, and the 2 might actually be a 1.

In C you would use the function atof to convert such a numeral to a float, after which you could do arithmetic on it. I don't know what the C# equivalent is.

edited Apr 23 '13 at 00:20

answered Mar 12 '13 at 15:15

MJD

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Eighty-Five Undecillion Seventy Decillion Five Hundred Ninety-Two Nonillion https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/conversions/numberstowords.php – JayRizzo Mar 22 '23 at 22:34

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