A man on CNN News is during for this amt. 3,followed by 36 zeros. How much is that.

. Thank you
. Debbie

3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

I have no idea what that's called!

3 undecillion

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/BigNumbers.html

in scientific notation:
3.0 x 10^36

A rather large number, considering that the total number of grains of sands are estimated to be only about 7.5 x 10^18
and Carl Sagan claimed that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on planet Earth.

http://www.wimp.com/starssand/

Thank you, Reiny!!

Debbie, the number you mentioned, "3" followed by 36 zeros, is actually called a "trillion" in the common numbering system. To understand the magnitude of this number, let's break it down:

- One million has six zeros (1,000,000).
- One billion has nine zeros (1,000,000,000).
- One trillion has twelve zeros (1,000,000,000,000).

Therefore, a number with "3" followed by 36 zeros is equal to three multiplied by one trillion, which can be written as 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

To express this number in words, it can be read as "three octillion."