How many miles are in a light year?

Question

How many miles are in a light year?

Answer 1

Its funny but my Science O partner knew this answer by heart!! Loll to all thsoe geeks out there!!

Answer 2

Almost impossible to answer, since it depends on many factors. How you define a mile, if you define it as a number of feet, how you define a foot etc. etc. According to Wikipedia it is about 5,878,625,373,183.61 international miles

Answer 3

Roughly six trillion...that is a very easy number to remember...

Answer 4

I beg to differ.  10^15 is used to find a light year in meters.  A light year in miles is 5,865,696,000,000 or 5.865696 x 10^12

Answer 5

There are approximately 5.8 trillion miles or 9 trillion kilometers in a light year.  

Answer 6

186000mile per second multiply that by 60 sec in a minute 60 minutes in an hour  24 by the day and 365 for the year

Answer 7

5.879×10^12 mi

not in scientific notation, that's about

5,879,000,000,000

so about 6 trillion miles

edit: ah, shoot, you're right nerdy, I looked at the wrong number