Charlee is using her calculator to find the product of two large numbers. Her calculator shows 1.78E12 on the display. Interpret what this means please.

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The notation "1.78E12" is a way to represent numbers in scientific notation. In this case, "E" stands for "times ten raised to the power of," so "1.78E12" means:

\[ 1.78 \times 10^{12} \]

This means that the number is 1.78 multiplied by 10 raised to the 12th power.

Calculating this gives:

\[ 1.78 \times 10^{12} = 1.78 \times 1,000,000,000,000 = 1,780,000,000,000 \]

So, Charlee's calculator is displaying a value of 1,780,000,000,000, which is one trillion, seven hundred eighty billion.