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  2. 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 ...

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy [17] have suggested that N-plex be used as a name for 10 N. This gives rise to the name googolplexplex for 10 googolplex = 10 10 10 100. Conway and Guy [17] have proposed that N-minex be used as a name for 10 −N, giving rise to the name googolminex for the reciprocal of a googolplex, which is written as ...

  4. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics – Bases: 9,439,829,801,208,141,318 (≈9.44 × 10 18) is the 10th and (by conjecture) largest number with more than one digit that can be written from base 2 to base 18 using only the digits 0 to 9, meaning the digits for 10 to 17 are not needed in bases greater than 10. [51]

  5. Trillion - Wikipedia

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    1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, i.e. 10 18 (ten to the eighteenth power), as defined on the long scale. This is one million times larger than the short scale trillion.

  6. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    In both scales, names are given to orders of magnitude at increments of 1000. Both systems use the same names for magnitudes less than 10 9. Differences arise from the use of identical names for larger magnitudes. For the same magnitude name (n-illion), the value is 10 3n+3 in the short scale but 10 6n in the long scale for positive integers n ...

  7. 35 baby names that mean thankful, grateful or blessed - AOL

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    "A name that gives thanks sends a dual message to a child: it’s a reminder to be grateful and appreciate the good in life, and that the child herself is a blessing to his or her family."

  8. 52 Baby Names That Mean Moon - AOL

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    Here, a unique Indonesian name with a dual meaning of “moon” and “month.” 38. Aylin. Aylin is a name of Turkish and Swiss origin that means “moon halo” or “one that belongs to the ...

  9. Unit prefix - Wikipedia

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    Before the adoption of ronna and quetta for 10 27 and 10 30 and ronto and quecto for 10 −27 and 10 −30 in November 2022, many personal, and sometimes facetious, proposals for additional metric prefixes were formulated. [12] [13] The prefix bronto, as used in the term "brontobyte", has been used to represent anything from 10 15 to 10 27 ...