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  2. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    For identical names, the long scale proceeds by powers of one million, whereas the short scale proceeds by powers of one thousand. For example, the short scale "one billion" (in many languages other than English called "one milliard", even on the short scale) means one thousand million (1,000,000,000), whereas in the long scale, "one billion ...

  3. Susan Wojcicki - Wikipedia

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    Franciszek Wójcicki (grandfather) Signature. Susan Diane Wojcicki (/ wʊˈtʃɪtski / wuutch-ITS-kee; [1] July 5, 1968 – August 9, 2024) was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022.

  4. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    10 000 000 000; short scale: ten billion; long scale: ten thousand million, or ten milliard) Biology – bacteria in the human body: There are roughly 10 10 bacteria in the human mouth. [27] Computing – web pages: approximately 5.6 × 10 10 web pages indexed by Google as of 2010.

  5. Trillion - Wikipedia

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    Trillion. Visualization of 1 trillion (short scale) A Rubik's cube, which has about 43 trillion (long scale) possible positions. Trillion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British ...

  6. Timeline of the far future - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of the far future. Checked. Artist's concept of the Earth 5–7.5 billion years from now, when the Sun has become a red giant. While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. [1][2][3][4] These ...

  7. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    This section illustrates several systems for naming large numbers, and shows how they can be extended past vigintillion. Traditional British usage assigned new names for each power of one million (the long scale): 1,000,000 = 1 million; 1,000,0002 = 1 billion; 1,000,0003 = 1 trillion; and so on. It was adapted from French usage, and is similar ...

  8. 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 Britain ...

  9. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.