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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, Zimbabwe printed a 100 trillion (10 14) Zimbabwean dollar note, ... It was first suggested that a googolplex should be 1, followed by writing zeros until you ...

  3. Googol - Wikipedia

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    A googol is the large number 10 100 or ten to the power of one hundred. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros: 10, 000, 000 ...

  4. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    1/52! chance of a specific shuffle Mathematics: The chances of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in any specific order is around 1.24 × 10 −68 (or exactly 1 ⁄ 52!) [4] Computing: The number 1.4 × 10 −45 is approximately equal to the smallest positive non-zero value that can be represented by a single-precision IEEE floating-point value.

  5. Googolplex - Wikipedia

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    Written out in ordinary decimal notation, it is 1 followed by 10 100 zeroes; that is, a 1 followed by a googol of zeroes. ... at 14:05 (UTC).

  6. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics; 10 googol: googolplex (1 followed by a googol of zeros) 10 googolplex: googolplexplex (1 followed by a googolplex of zeros) Combinations of numbers in most sports scores are read as in the following examples: 1–0 British English: one-nil; American English: one-nothing, one-zip, or ...

  7. Edward Kasner - Wikipedia

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    Kasner is perhaps best remembered today for introducing the term "googol." In order to pique the interest of children, Kasner sought a name for a very large number: one followed by 100 zeros. On a walk in the New Jersey Palisades with his nephews, Milton (1911–1981) [3] and Edwin Sirotta, Kasner asked for their ideas. Nine-year-old Milton ...

  8. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Mathematics and numbers

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    1 followed by 13 zeros followed by 666 followed by 13 zeros followed by 1. Bertrand's postulate: Despite now being a theorem, still conventionally called a postulate. Calculator spelling: 5318008! The Complexity of Songs: A treatise on the computational complexity of songs by venerable computer scientist Donald Knuth. Cox–Zucker machine

  9. List of numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.