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  2. 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 ...

  3. Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia

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    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. The Riemann hypothesis is concerned with the locations of these nontrivial zeros, and states that: The real part of every nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is ...

  4. Indonesian rupiah - Wikipedia

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    Deposits would be underwritten up to Rp20 million (about US$5,500). About 90% of all depositors held less than this amount in their bank accounts. After this announcement, the rupiah immediately gained almost 10%, to around Rp3,300 per dollar.

  5. 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.

  6. History of the Indonesian rupiah - Wikipedia

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    Although most coin was imported, (chiefly) silver and also some gold 'rupee' coins were minted locally in the 18th and early 19th century. The first bank paper appeared with the formation of the De Bank Courant en Bank van Leening in 1752, and a number of issues were made over the next sixty years, which all tended to lose value over time due ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    In English and many other languages (including many that are written right-to-left), the integer part is at the left of the radix point, and the fraction part at the right of it. [24] A radix point is most often used in decimal (base 10) notation, when it is more commonly called the decimal point (the prefix deci-implying base 10).

  9. 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]