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  2. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    (1 000 000 000 000 000; 1000 5; short scale: one quadrillion; long scale: one thousand billion, or one billiard) ISO: peta- (P) Biology – Insects : 1,000,000,000,000,000 to 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 15 to 10 16 ) – The estimated total number of ants on Earth alive at any one time (their biomass is approximately equal to the total biomass ...

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The name of a number 10 3n+3, where n is greater than or equal to 1000, is formed by concatenating the names of the numbers of the form 10 3m+3, where m represents each group of comma-separated digits of n, with each but the last "-illion" trimmed to "-illi-", or, in the case of m = 0, either "-nilli-" or "-nillion". [17]

  4. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading. European languages that use the comma as a decimal separator may correspondingly use the period as a thousands separator.

  5. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    For powers of ten less than 9 (one, ten, hundred, thousand and million) the short and long scales are identical, but for larger powers of ten, the two systems differ in confusing ways. For identical names, the long scale grows by multiples of one million (10 6), whereas the short scale grows by multiples of one thousand (10 3).

  6. 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 ...

  7. Big Risk: $1.2 Quadrillion Derivatives Market Dwarfs World GDP

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    One of the biggest risks to the world's financial health is the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market. ... A quadrillion is a big number: 1,000 times a trillion. ... $1.2 quadrillion is the so ...

  8. Are Blank Coins Valuable? If You Can Find One, It Could Be ...

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    In fact, blank coins are not uncommon due to errors during the minting process.... Are Blank Coins Valuable? If You Can Find One, It Could Be Worth Up to $1,600

  9. 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.