What is 10 to the 12th power?

10 to the 12th power, also written as 10¹², is equal to 1,000,000,000,000, which is one trillion.

• It's a very large number representing a magnitude of scale.
• In the metric system, the prefix "tera-" represents 10¹². For example, a terabyte (TB) is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
• It's frequently encountered when dealing with large quantities of data, in fields like computer science, economics (e.g., national debt), and astronomy (e.g., distances in light-years can involve numbers close to this order of magnitude).
• The scientific notation of one trillion is 1 x 10¹². Scientific notation is a way to represent very large or very small numbers concisely.