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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Traditional British usage assigned new names for each power of one million (the long scale): 1,000,000 = 1 million; 1,000,000 2 = 1 billion; 1,000,000 3 = 1 trillion; and so on. It was adapted from French usage, and is similar to the system that was documented or invented by Chuquet.

  3. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    For identical names, the long scale grows by multiples of one million (10 6), whereas the short scale grows by multiples of one thousand (10 3). For example, the short scale billion is one thousand million (10 9), whereas in the long scale, billion is one million million (10 12). The long scale system includes additional names for interleaved ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Googol - Wikipedia

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    The term was coined in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta (1911–1981), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. [1] He may have been inspired by the contemporary comic strip character Barney Google. [2] Kasner popularized the concept in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination. [3]

  8. How Many Billionaires Are in the World? - AOL

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    For example, nearly 750 people on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list for 2022 have a net worth of $1.5 billion or below as of March 11. This is obviously a monumental difference from Musk’s ...

  9. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The factor is intended to make reading comprehension easier than a lengthy series of zeros. For example, 1.0 ... 10 15 = 1,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 million billion = 1 ...