What is 1.46966e+17 written out?

A light year is 6 trillion, or 6,000,000,000,000 miles.

and the black hole is 25,000 light years away.

6,000,000,000,000 × 25,000= 1.50000000E+17 and I want to see it written out

5,878,625,370,000 miles to be exact I think

1.46966e+17 is 1.46966×10 exponent 17 (10 to the 17th power)=146,966,000,000,000,000 miles.

I.e., 146 quadrillion, 966 trillion miles.

146966000000000000

Except a light year is 9460730472580.8 km, which is approximately 5.88 trillion miles (not 6 trillion miles).

And that black hole is about 26996±33 light years away (not 25,000).

So more accurately, 9460730472580.8 km x 26996 ly x 0.62137119 miles / km = 1.58699370003045e+017 miles.

i.e. about 158,699,370,003,045,000 miles, with some rounding error, and even without rounding error, we only know within an error margin of about 66 light years.

(BTW, the “e+n” stands for “multiply by 10, n times”.)

the lightyear thing was kind of corrected, did not realize the 25,000 was a bit off. I checked a few sites that said 25,000.

Thank you. I always wondered how you did that

Also, remember everything is moving at different rates and different directions, so any measure of the distance is continually changing, and probably off by a light year or more.

(Earth is at perihelion to the Sun today, closest we are all year, an example of how astronomical distances are always in flux).