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  2. Googol - Wikipedia

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    To put in perspective the size of a googol, the mass of an electron, just under 10 −30 kg, can be compared to the mass of the visible universe, estimated at between 10 50 and 10 60 kg. [5] It is a ratio in the order of about 10 80 to 10 90 , or at most one ten-billionth of a googol (0.00000001% of a googol).

  3. Googolplex - Wikipedia

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    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. In comparison, Earth's mass is 5.97 × 10 24 kilograms, [5] the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is estimated at 1.8 × 10 42 kilograms ...

  4. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading. European languages that use the comma as a decimal separator may correspondingly use the period as a thousands separator.

  5. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The naming procedure for large numbers is based on taking the number n occurring in 10 3n+3 (short scale) or 10 6n (long scale) and concatenating Latin roots for its units, tens, and hundreds place, together with the suffix -illion. In this way, numbers up to 10 3·999+3 = 10 3000 (short scale) or 10 6·999 = 10 5994 (long scale

  6. 10,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    10,000,000 (ten million) is the natural number following 9,999,999 and preceding 10,000,001. In scientific notation , it is written as 10 7 . In South Asia except for Sri Lanka , it is known as the crore .

  7. 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 ...

  8. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    10 Primarily denotes ten years, but occasionally refers to ten of something Duo: 2 In reference to people engaged in an endeavor together, as in musical performance (other words denote three or more people in the same context: trio, quartet, etc.) Grand: 1,000 Slang for a thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. Gross: 144

  9. Fibonacci word - Wikipedia

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    The nth element of a Fibonacci word, , is 1 if the Zeckendorf representation (the sum of a specific set of Fibonacci numbers) of n includes a 1, and 0 if it does not include a 1. The digits of the Fibonacci word may be obtained by taking the sequence of fibbinary numbers modulo 2. [10]