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One - a trillion
A Centillion - what a heap of zeros - i am not sure I understand a million

Room 13 at Greytown School spent some time thinking about a million dollars (and this week's Lotto is 30 000 000!!). One of the things they explored was a $1000000 coin trail using $1 coins. Here is their spreadsheet. That's a long long way - from Greytown School all the way to Masterton. It would take us over 20 minutes to drive that far!!

We also looked at what a pile of $1000000 dollars in $1 coins would weigh. Each coin weighs 8 grams. Can you work it out. Could you carry that lot around in your pocket?

__**Josie, Room 13, Greytown School**__ Wow, there are some very big numbers out there! I always thought that a trillion was big but, man when you get up to like sextillion and vigintillion it is mind blowing. And the dollar bill thing, well I am not sure i think that is right but that is pretty cool really. Imagine getting all the united states money and stacking it up!? That would be pretty awesome! 63 zeroes! Wow! But what about googol and googolplex, those are very, very, very, very big numbers! The article doesn’t mention those.

But what comes after a trillion? 12 zeroes may seem like a lot, but that’s really quite insignificant compared to say a vigintillion, which has a total of 63 zeroes. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - this is definitely my new favourite number. But that makes me wonder, what comes after a vigintillion?
 * __Sophie, Room 13, Greytown School__**

Sophie I have the answer to your interesting question, the number that comes after a vigintillion is....Unvigintillion, which has a grand total of 66 zeros if you are still interested I can go on -duovigintillion, 69 zeros -tresvigintillion, 72 zeros - Quattuortillion, 75 zeros...and so on....
 * __Lizzy, Room 13, Greytown School__**

Two - us and the ants.
Hi Jamie and Jess - what a wonderful piece of exploring - I am not surprised your calculator had a fit. Even the number of ants for your school is quite a pile of the little critters. Wow that is so amazing how much ants there are for your school!!

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Kiri - Room 14 Greytown School

__**Josie, Room 13 Greytown School**__ Gosh there are certainly a lot of ants around. But its not really that suprising, I mean if you ever see ants you usually see at least 200 or so. And if you put into consideration how small that tiny piece of land is where you saw them compared with the size of the earth and if there are aproxamately 200 ants for every square meter then man alive, thats a lot of ants! 1,140,217,793,400,000 This massive number is about how many ants live on our earth! Thats 1 Quadrillion, 140 Trillion, 217 Million, 400 Thousand! OMG!

168,000 ants for every person? That’s a lot of ant farms. And I don’t even like ants. For my family there would be 840,000 ants, for my class the would be 4,032,000 ants, and for New Zealand there would be 724,515,960,000! New Zealand’s population is estimated to increase by one person every 17 minutes and 55 seconds, so soon there will a lot more ants! But even with a head count this big, ants are not the most abundant life form on Earth. That would have to single-celled microorganisms, or bacteria. There are over a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bacteria living in your body right now. But don’t freak - most of these are harmless.
 * __Sophie, Room 13, Greytown School__**

Three - a very large bucket.
__**Sophie, Room 13, Greytown School**__ According to wikipedia, the largest ship ever built is the Knock Nevis, a massive oil tanker. Its 1,504.10 feet long (458.45 meters), which is 251 times the average New Zealand man’s height. It’s maximum capacity is 564,650 DW, which is over 512,137,550 kilograms! It is an oil tanker Sophie - that would be a lot of swimming pools of oil??

Eight - the weight of water
Greytown 13 Bethany, Kimberly and Nicole We think its heavier when its liquid. How can you check this out? Put one litre of water into the freezer and freeze it. Leave one litre of water on the bench. Wait untill the solid water has gone solid then take it out and weigh to see witch one is heavier. Good thinking girls - Ok that is liquid and solid - what about gaseous?

I think that if you measured a certain amount of water and put it into a large container hop in the water and this will force water to flow out then when you hop out some water will be gone and the amount that is gone equals the amount of space you will take up. Tyla, Pongaroa

We made predictions and then Te Awa found out that when one litre of water is frozen that it weighs the same as when it is liquid. One litre of water weighs one kilogram. We decided that if you heat the water and make it into steam, and then catch the steam (condensation) somehow, the drips will all form one litre of water again. 3 people predicted the liquid would weigh 1 kg. 1 person correctly predicted that the ice would weigh 1 kg too!

I can just about hear the thinking - nice one. So Te Awa - how do your condensation thoughts link to the amount of water in the atmosphere?? Where do all the puddles go?

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