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  2. Googol - Wikipedia

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    To put in perspective the size of a googol, the mass of an electron, just under 10 −30 kg, can be compared to the mass of the visible universe, estimated at between 10 50 and 10 60 kg. [5] It is a ratio in the order of about 10 80 to 10 90, or at most one ten-billionth of a googol (0.00000001% of a googol).

  3. Googolplex - Wikipedia

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    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. In comparison, Earth's mass is 5.97 × 10 24 kilograms, [5] the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is estimated at 1.8 × 10 42 kilograms ...

  4. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, class 5 is defined to include numbers between 10 10 10 10 6 and 10 10 10 10 10 6, which are numbers where X becomes humanly indistinguishable from X 2 [14] (taking iterated logarithms of such X yields indistinguishibility firstly between log(X) and 2log(X), secondly between log(log(X)) and 1+log(log(X)), and finally an extremely ...

  5. 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 .

  6. 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

  7. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000. 10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics; 10 googol: googolplex (1 followed by a googol of zeros) 10 googolplex: googolplexplex (1 followed by a googolplex of zeros) Combinations of numbers in most sports scores are read as in the following ...

  8. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system is used in Indian English and the Indian subcontinent to express large numbers. Commonly used quantities include lakh (one hundred thousand) and crore (ten million) – written as 1,00,000 and 1,00,00,000 respectively in some locales. [1]

  9. 1,000,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    (10 9 days is roughly 2.738 million years.) About 10 9 months ago, dinosaurs walked the Earth during the late Cretaceous. (10 9 months is roughly 83.3 million years.) About 10 9 years—a gigaannus—ago, the first multicellular eukaryotes appeared on Earth. About 10 9 decades ago, the thin disk of the Milky Way started to form. (10 9 decades ...