500000000000

500000000000 is the natural number that follows 499999999999 and precedes 500000000001. In decimal form it is written as 500,000,000,000 and in scientific notation as 5 × 10^11.

Naming and scale: In the short scale used in the United States and many parts of the world, 500,000,000,000 is read as five hundred billion. In long-scale usage, where a billion denotes 10^12, the same digits would be described as half a trillion.

Mathematical properties: The number is even and ends with 11 zeros, so it is divisible by 10^11. Its prime factorization is 2^11 × 5^12. Consequently, it is a multiple of 2, 5, 10, and higher powers of 2 and 5; it is not divisible by 3 or 9 since the sum of its digits is 5.

Context and usage: Numbers of this magnitude appear in various real-world contexts, such as large financial figures, population estimates, data quantities, or scientific data sets. In mathematics and computer science, it can serve as an example of a large integers’ properties, scaling behavior, and representation in different bases or notations.