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  2. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    10 12 stars in the Andromeda Galaxy (1 000 000 000 000; 1000 4; short scale: one trillion; long scale: one billion) ISO: tera-(T) Astronomy: Andromeda Galaxy, which is part of the same Local Group as our galaxy, contains about 10 12 stars. Biology – Bacteria on the human body: The surface of the human body houses roughly 10 12 bacteria. [29]

  3. Grade (slope) - Wikipedia

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    This is not the usual way to specify slope; this nonstandard expression follows the sine function rather than the tangent function, so it calls a 45 degree slope a 71 percent grade instead of a 100 percent. But in practice the usual way to calculate slope is to measure the distance along the slope and the vertical rise, and calculate the ...

  4. 1,000,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    With a number, "billion" can be abbreviated as b, bil [2] or bn. [3] [4] In standard form, it is written as 1 × 10 9. The metric prefix giga indicates 1,000,000,000 times the base unit. Its symbol is G. One billion years may be called an eon in astronomy or geology.

  5. Expenditures in the United States federal budget - Wikipedia

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    President Obama's 2010 budget proposal includes a total of $663.8 billion, including $533.8 billion for the DOD and $130 billion for overseas contingencies, primarily the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The proposed DoD base budget represents an increase of $20.5 billion over the $513.3 billion enacted for fiscal 2009.

  6. List of countries by government budget - Wikipedia

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    According to Central Intelligence Agency, "budget surplus (+) or deficit (-) records the difference between national government revenues and expenditures, expressed as a percent of GDP. A positive (+) number indicates that revenues exceeded expenditures (a budget surplus), while a negative (-) number indicates the reverse (a budget deficit).

  7. Alternative minimum tax - Wikipedia

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    The loss is expected to be between $800 billion and $1.5 trillion in federal revenues over 10 years. [96] According to The Washington Post , "By 2008, it would cost the Treasury considerably less to repeal the ordinary income tax system than the alternative minimum tax, according to the Tax Policy Center, jointly run by the Brookings ...

  8. Spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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    LANPAR, available in 1969, [10] was the first electronic spreadsheet on mainframe and time sharing computers. LANPAR was an acronym: LANguage for Programming Arrays at Random. [10] VisiCalc (1979) was the first electronic spreadsheet on a microcomputer, [11] and it helped turn the Apple II into a popular and widely used personal computer.

  9. 10 - Wikipedia

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    10 (ten) is the even natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system , the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. Linguistics