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What is the smallest power of 10 that would exceed 234,567,890?

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Questions is asking about what is the smallest power of 10 that would exceed 234,567,890.

To find that first we need to check how the powers of 10 changes the size of number. So let's find poers of 10 as shown below:


10^1=10


10^2=100


10^3=1000


10^4=10000


10^5=100000


10^6=1000000


10^7=10000000


10^8=100000000

On this pattern we see that as the exponent increases by 1 then a zero increases in the output.

In given number 234567890, there are 9 digits. So we need at least 9 zeroes which is

1000000000 or
10^9

Clearly 1000000000 exceeds 234567890.

Hence the final answer is that exponent of 10 will be 9.

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