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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. 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. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    a thousand thousand units, and a byllion is worth a thousand thousand millions, and tryllion is worth a thousand thousand byllions, and a quadrillion is worth a thousand thousand tryllions, and so on for the others. And an example of this follows, a number divided up and punctuated as previously described, the whole number being 745324 tryllions,

  5. Googolplex - Wikipedia

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    A typical book can be printed with 10 6 zeros (around 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line). Therefore, it requires 10 94 such books to print all the zeros of a googolplex (that is, printing a googol zeros). [4] If each book had a mass of 100 grams, all of them would have a total mass of 10 93 kilograms.

  6. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number 10,000 is used to express an even larger approximate number, as in Hebrew רבבה r e vâvâh, [36] rendered into Greek as μυριάδες, and to English myriad. [37] Similar usage is found in the East Asian 萬 or 万 ( lit. 10,000; pinyin : wàn ), and the South Asian lakh ( lit. 100,000).

  7. How To Write Numbers in Words on a Check - AOL

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    AndreyPopov / Getty Images/iStockphoto. ... You put $900 in the number box but accidentally wrote “Nine thousand and 00/100” on the text line. Your bank could legally pay your landlord $9,000.

  8. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Ancient Greeks used a system based on the myriad, that is, ten thousand, and their largest named number was a myriad myriad, or one hundred million. In The Sand Reckoner , Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) devised a system of naming large numbers reaching up to

  9. Who will be the first trillionaire? Study predicts Elon Musk ...

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    A new study by Tipalti’s Approve predicts that this entrepreneur and investor, averaging yearly returns of 129% will be the world’s first trillionaire in as little as two years.