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  2. 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 ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Medicine: The United States Food and Drug Administration requires a minimum of 3 x 10 11 (300 billion) platelets per apheresis unit. [33] Paleodemography – Number of humans that have ever lived: approximately (1.2±0.3) × 10 11 live births of anatomically modern humans since the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. [34]

  4. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    For example 1,000,000,000,000 rather than 1 trillion (short scale) or 1 billion (long scale). ... one too many zeros in the 804300 portion of the fully written out ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Billion - Wikipedia

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    Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000 , i.e. one thousand million , or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power ), as defined on the short scale . This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in ...

  7. Googolplex - Wikipedia

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    A typical book can be printed with 10 6 zeros (around 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line). 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.

  8. 1,000,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. See also: Orders of magnitude (numbers) and Long and short scales Natural number 1000000000 List of numbers Integers ← 10 0 10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7 10 8 10 9 Cardinal One billion (short scale) One thousand million, or one milliard (long scale) Ordinal One billionth (short ...

  9. 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 ...