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  2. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    (1 000 000 000 000 000; 1000 5; short scale: one quadrillion; long scale: one thousand billion, or one billiard) ISO: peta- (P) Biology – Insects : 1,000,000,000,000,000 to 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 15 to 10 16 ) – The estimated total number of ants on Earth alive at any one time (their biomass is approximately equal to the total biomass ...

  3. -yllion - Wikipedia

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    Same numerals are used in the Ancient Greek numeral system, and also the Chinese "short scale" (new number name every power of 10 after 1000 (or 10 3+n)), "myriad scale" (new number name every 10 4n), and "mid scale" (new number name every 10 8n). Today these Chinese numerals are still in use, but are used in their "myriad scale" values, which ...

  4. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Traditional American usage (which was also adapted from French usage but at a later date), Canadian, and modern British usage assign new names for each power of one thousand (the short scale). Thus, a billion is 1000 × 1000 2 = 10 9; a trillion is 1000 × 1000 3 = 10 12; and so forth.

  5. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    1 μs: The time needed to execute one machine cycle by an Intel 80186 microprocessor 2.2 μs: The lifetime of a muon 4–16 μs: The time needed to execute one machine cycle by a 1960s minicomputer: 10 −3: millisecond: ms One thousandth of one second 1 ms: The time for a neuron in the human brain to fire one impulse and return to rest [13]

  6. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading. European languages that use the comma as a decimal separator may correspondingly use the period as a thousands separator.

  7. 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 ...

  8. PayPal Glitch Actually Put Man $92 Quadrillion in the Red - AOL

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    In fact, his monthly PayPal statement showed a negative balance of more than $92 quadrillion, which would have made him more than 5,500 times more indebted than the United States government.

  9. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    Combinations of the unambiguous words such as ten, hundred, thousand and million. For example: one thousand million and one million million. [5] Scientific notation (for example 1 × 10 10), or its engineering notation variant (for example 10 × 10 9), or the computing variant E notation (for example 1e10). This is the most common practice ...