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  2. Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia

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    Its analytical continuation has zeros at the negative even integers; that is, ζ(s) = 0 when s is one of −2, −4, −6, .... These are called its trivial zeros. However, the negative even integers are not the only values for which the zeta function is zero. The other ones are called nontrivial zeros.

  3. 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]

  4. Decimalisation - Wikipedia

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    Decimalisation or decimalization (see spelling differences) is the conversion of a system of currency or of weights and measures to units related by powers of 10.. Most countries have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are valued relative to the basic unit by a power of 10, most commonly ...

  5. Redenomination - Wikipedia

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    1 million old lira: 2005 "new" is an official designation and was dropped in 2009. New Taiwan dollar = 40 000 old dollars: 1949 "new" is an official designation and is still used in official documents today. Argentine austral = 1 000 Peso argentino: 1985 completely new name Yugoslav 1993 dinar = 1 million 1992 dinara 1993 no official ...

  6. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    million mega- (M) 1 000 000: 10 6: 6 billion giga- (G) 1 000 000 000: 10 9: 9 trillion tera- (T) 1 000 000 000 000: 10 12: 12 quadrillion peta- (P) 1 000 000 000 000 000: 10 15: 15 quintillion exa- (E) 1 000 000 000 000 000 000: 10 18: 18 sextillion zetta- (Z) 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: 10 21: 21 septillion yotta- (Y) 1 000 000 000 000 000 ...

  7. Metric prefix - Wikipedia

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    The financial and general news media mostly use m or M, b or B, and t or T as abbreviations for million, billion (10 9) and trillion (10 12), respectively, for large quantities, typically currency [28] and population. [29] The medical and automotive fields in the United States use the abbreviations cc or ccm for cubic centimetres.

  8. Mill (currency) - Wikipedia

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    For example, a gasoline price of $3.019 per gallon, if pronounced in full, would be "three dollars [and] one and nine-tenths cents" or "three <point> zero-one-nine dollars". Discount coupons, such as those for grocery items, usually include in their fine print a statement such as "Cash value less than 1 ⁄ 10 of 1 cent".

  9. 100,000 - Wikipedia

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    Increments of 10 5 from 100,000 through a one million have the following prime counts: 8,392 primes between 100,000 and 200,000. [b] This is a difference of 1,200 primes from the previous range. 104,729 is the 10,000th prime, which is in this range. 199,999 is prime. 8,013 primes between 200,000 and 300,000.