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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    1 1 10 6: Million Million Million M Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics – Lottery: The odds of winning any prize in the UK National Lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as of 2003, are 54 to 1 against, for a probability of about 0.018 (1.8%). Mathematics – Poker: The odds of being dealt a three of a kind in poker are 46 to 1 against, for a probability of 0.021 (2.1%).

  4. Floating point operations per second - Wikipedia

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    It is named after the Japanese word "kei", which stands for 10 quadrillion, [55] corresponding to the target speed of 10 petaFLOPS. On November 15, 2011, Intel demonstrated a single x86-based processor, code-named "Knights Corner", sustaining more than a teraFLOPS on a wide range of DGEMM operations.

  5. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    A natural language numbering system allows for representing large numbers using names that more clearly distinguish numeric scale than a series of digits. For example "billion" may be easier to comprehend for some readers than "1,000,000,000".

  6. -yllion - Wikipedia

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    -yllion (pronounced / aɪ lj ən /) [1] is a proposal from Donald Knuth for the terminology and symbols of an alternate decimal superbase [clarification needed] system. In it, he adapts the familiar English terms for large numbers to provide a systematic set of names for much larger numbers.

  7. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    1 one one 10 deca ten ten 10 2: hecto hundred hundred 10 3: kilo thousand thousand 10 6: mega million million 10 9: giga billion or milliard milliard 10 12: tera trillion billion 10 15: peta quadrillion billiard 10 18: exa quintillion trillion 10 21: zetta sextillion trilliard 10 24: yotta septillion quadrillion 10 27: ronna octillion ...

  8. PayPal Glitch Actually Put Man $92 Quadrillion in the Red - AOL

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    In fact, his monthly PayPal statement showed a negative balance of more than $92 quadrillion, which would have made him more than 5,500 times more indebted than the United States government.

  9. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    [1] For example, 1 and 1.02 are within an order of magnitude. So are 1 and 2, 1 and 9, or 1 and 0.2. However, 1 and 15 are not within an order of magnitude, since their ratio is 15/1 = 15 > 10. The reciprocal ratio, 1/15, is less than 0.1, so the same result is obtained.