Freewrite 5 min prompt: Quadrillion

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Do you know what a Quadrillion is? Definitely, you would. In our school, we were taught that Quadrillion is a number which has fifteen zeros or has a 10 raise to power 15. It is always hard to play with such large number and the same thing happened to one of our class fellows.

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Our teacher used to ask children to solve questions when we were assembled for playing the national anthem. The teacher asked a boy from 9th grade how to solve it. He was a senior student and was expected to solve it easily by dividing a Quadrillion over a Nonillion but he could not. The teacher laughed and angrily asked him why he could not solve such a simple question. The student replied that he doesn’t know what a Quadrillion or Nonillion let alone dividing them over each other. The students assembled there and the teacher standing there on the occasion all of them laughed out loud.

I agree with the student that it is very hard to keep all these huge numbers in mind.