ORBIT

Big Numbers

Build powers of ten, see how representation fails, and move from familiar named numbers into recursive notation.

Selected finite number
Googol
10¹⁰⁰

Magnitude machine

See the decimal structure instead of imagining a pile

Switch between the literal digit tape, grouping hierarchy, and exponent-distance view.

A gentle expansion
Magnitude builder

Change the exponent directly

The exponent is the invariant reference even when names stop being useful.

Order
Zeros
Digitssame as above
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