There are lots of big numbers all around us. For example, there are around 602,204,500,000,000,000,000,000 molecules in a mere eighteen grams of water. The Andromeda galaxy, the nearest to our own, lies about 1,470,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.Unfortunately, your bank balance does not rank among these large numbers. Every little job, even figuring out something silly like how many feet deep Florida would be in silver dollars, can help. So when a group of scientists approach you about exactly that, you happily agree...
Assume that Florida has 58,560 square miles of land, while a silver dollar is 1/2 inches in diameter and 3/32 inch in thickness. Also assume that the silver dollars will be stacked neatly in columns placed edge-to-edge (see figure above).
The example's number is intentionally incorrect.
You can assume that the number of feet deep is less than 30,000 and greater than zero.
Fractional values of .5 are rounded up.
Enter a huge number: 1.11e15
Florida would be piled 1 foot deep in 1.110000e+15 silver dollars.
Enter a huge number: 7e16
Florida would be piled 63 feet deep in 7.000000e+16 silver dollars.
Enter a huge number: 6.022e18
Florida would be piled 5403 feet deep in 6.022000e+18 silver dollars.