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The numerals 1–10 have basic, combining, and independent forms, many of which are formed through reduplication. The combining forms are used to form higher numbers. In some cases there is more than one word for a numeral, reflecting the Balinese register system; halus (high-register) forms are listed in italics.
100: A century, also used in cricket scores and in cycling for 100 miles. A ton, in Commonwealth English, the speed of 100 mph [6] or 100 km/h. A small hundred or short hundred (archaic, see 120 below) 120: A great hundred or long hundred (twelve tens; as opposed to the small hundred, i.e. 100 or ten tens), also called small gross (ten dozens ...
Just as the same fraction can be written in more than one way, the same real number may have more than one decimal representation. For example, 0.999..., 1.0, 1.00, 1.000, ..., all represent the natural number 1. A given real number has only the following decimal representations: an approximation to some finite number of decimal places, an ...
Visualization of 1 trillion (short scale) A Rubik's cube, which has about 43 trillion (long scale) possible positions. Trillion is a number with two distinct definitions: 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.
Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 100 for this year has been used since the early medieval period.
Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions.German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences—and number theory is the queen of mathematics."
The decay time for a supermassive black hole of roughly 1 galaxy-mass (10 11 solar masses) due to Hawking radiation is on the order of 10 100 years. [7] Therefore, the heat death of an expanding universe is lower-bounded to occur at least one googol years in the future.
1713 12 Ann. c. 17 — The legal coal bushel to be round with a plain and even bottom, 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches from outside to outside and to hold 1 Winchester bushel and 1 quart of water. 1718 5 Geo. 1. c. 18 — Decreed Scots Pint to be exactly 103 in 3. 1803 43 Geo. 3. c. 151 — Referred to wine bottles making about 5 to the wine gallon (i.e ...