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  2. 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 ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    100 000 000 000; short scale: one hundred billion; long scale: hundred thousand million, or hundred milliard) Astronomy: There are 100 billion planets located in the Milky Way. [30] [31] Biology – Neurons in the brain: approximately (1±0.2) × 10 11 neurons in the human brain. [32]

  4. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Where a power of ten has different names in the two conventions, the long scale name is shown in parentheses. The positive 10 power related to a short scale name can be determined based on its Latin name-prefix using the following formula: 10 [(prefix-number + 1) × 3] Examples: billion = 10 [(2 + 1) × 3] = 10 9; octillion = 10 [(8 + 1) × 3 ...

  5. Billion - Wikipedia

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    Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000 , i.e. one thousand million , or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power ), as defined on the short scale . This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in ...

  6. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Later Hindu and Buddhist texts have extended this list, but these lists are no longer mutually consistent and names of numbers larger than 10 8 differ between texts. For example, the Panchavimsha Brahmana lists 10 9 as nikharva , 10 10 vâdava , 10 11 akṣiti , while Śâṅkhyâyana Śrauta Sûtra has 10 9 nikharva , 10 10 samudra , 10 11 ...

  7. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000. 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 ...

  8. How Many Billionaires Are in the World? - AOL

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    For example, nearly 750 people on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list for 2022 have a net worth of $1.5 billion or below as of March 11. This is obviously a monumental difference from Musk’s ...

  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.