I don't know if that would really help. The problem with numbers above "million" is that people tend to think that a billion is a few million. Changing to a not

I don't know if that would really help. The problem with numbers above "million" is that people tend to think that a billion is a few million. Changing to a notation where the exponents are just numbers won't help. They know what 12 and 6 are, so E12 is like, twice as big as E6. I think the solution is to go Carl Sagan: start saying "million million" instead of trillion.