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  2. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be used to mean either a definite (she has a million followers now) or an indefinite value (she signed what felt like a million papers). The title The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (lit. "a thousand nights and one night") impiles a large number of nights. [22]

  3. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    one million ten lakh 1,000,000,000: 10 9: one billion a thousand million: one milliard a thousand million: one hundred crore (one arab) 1,000,000,000,000: 10 12: one trillion a thousand billion: one billion a million million: one lakh crore (ten kharab) 1,000,000,000,000,000: 10 15: one quadrillion a thousand trillion: one billiard a thousand ...

  4. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    The numeral 6: Can be confused with a letter capital G, or the lowercase b, or the nine if inverted. [3] In situations where the number 6 may appear at various angles (such as on billiard balls, some styles of playing cards and dice), it can be underlined (appearing as 6 ) or followed by a full stop (appearing as 6.

  5. Letter: U.S. activists call on Dept. of Energy to revoke $182 ...

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    The following letter, signed by representatives of 106 organizations from the Great Lakes and across the U.S., states their opposition to a $182 million conditional loan guarantee to develop ...

  6. Rare letter signed by Founding Fathers expected to fetch $1 ...

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    Bidding starts at $550,000, and the letter is expected to fetch up to $1 million when it goes under the hammer on November 12. Objects and artifacts linked to the founding fathers often prove ...

  7. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    As 100=10 2, these are two decimal digits. 121: Number expressible with two undecimal digits. 125: Number expressible with three quinary digits. 128: Using as 128=2 7. [clarification needed] 144: Number expressible with two duodecimal digits. 169: Number expressible with two tridecimal digits. 185

  8. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest examples of this is The Sand Reckoner, in which Archimedes gave a system for naming large numbers. To do this, he called the numbers up to a myriad myriad (10 8) "first numbers" and called 10 8 itself the "unit of the second numbers".

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