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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Million Million Million M Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y Yotta-8 4 10 ...

  3. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    For example, one trillion (on the short scale; a million millions) would thus be written as 10,00,00,00,00,000 or 10 kharab. [33] The convention for digit group separators historically varied among countries, but usually sought to distinguish the delimiter from the decimal separator.

  4. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Genocide: An estimated 12 million persons shipped from Africa to the New World in the Atlantic slave trade. Mathematics: 12,988,816 is the number of domino tilings of an 8×8 checkerboard. Genocide/Famine: 15 million is an estimated lower bound for the death toll of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine, the deadliest known famine in human history.

  5. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    The letters "E" or "D" were used as a scientific-notation separator by Sharp pocket computers released between 1987 and 1995, "E" used for 10-digit numbers and "D" used for 20-digit double-precision numbers. [16] The Texas Instruments TI-83 and TI-84 series of calculators (1996–present) use a small capital E for the separator. [17]

  6. Arbitrary-precision arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    The 1620 was a decimal-digit machine which used discrete transistors, yet it had hardware (that used lookup tables) to perform integer arithmetic on digit strings of a length that could be from two to whatever memory was available. For floating-point arithmetic, the mantissa was restricted to a hundred digits or fewer, and the exponent was ...

  7. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    The root mil in million does not refer to the numeral, 1. The word, million, derives from the Old French, milion, from the earlier Old Italian, milione, an intensification of the Latin word, mille, a thousand. That is, a million is a big thousand, much as a great gross is a dozen gross or 12 × 144 = 1728. [7]

  8. 10,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    10,000,000 (ten million) is the natural number following 9,999,999 and preceding 10,000,001. In scientific notation , it is written as 10 7 . In South Asia except for Sri Lanka , it is known as the crore .

  9. 1,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    A million millilitres or cubic centimetres (one cubic metre) of water has a mass of a million grams or one tonne. Weight: A million 80-milligram (1.2 gr) honey bees would weigh the same as an 80 kg (180 lb) person. Landscape: A pyramidal hill 600 feet (180 m) wide at the base and 100 feet (30 m) high would weigh about a million short tons.