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  2. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number of cells in the human body (estimated at 3.72 × 10 13), or 37.2 trillion/37.2 T [3] The number of bits on a computer hard disk (as of 2024, typically about 10 13, 1–2 TB), or 10 trillion/10T; The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 10 14), or 100 trillion/100 T

  3. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel maintains 15 figures in its numbers, but they are not always accurate; mathematically, the bottom line should be the same as the top line, in 'fp-math' the step '1 + 1/9000' leads to a rounding up as the first bit of the 14 bit tail '10111000110010' of the mantissa falling off the table when adding 1 is a '1', this up-rounding is not undone when subtracting the 1 again, since there is no ...

  4. Template:Convert - Wikipedia

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    By {{Convert}} default, the conversion result will be rounded either to precision comparable to that of the input value (the number of digits after the decimal point—or the negative of the number of non-significant zeroes before the point—is increased by one if the conversion is a multiplication by a number between 0.02 and 0.2, remains the ...

  5. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    Ido's Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di la Linguo Internaciona Ido (Complete Detailed Grammar of the International Language Ido) officially states that commas are used for the decimal separator whilst full stops are used to separate thousands, millions, etc. So the number 12,345,678.90123 (in American notation), for instance, would be written 12. ...

  6. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    1 1 10 6: Million Million Million M Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y ...

  7. -yllion - Wikipedia

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    -yllion (pronounced / aɪ lj ən /) [1] is a proposal from Donald Knuth for the terminology and symbols of an alternate decimal superbase [clarification needed] system. In it, he adapts the familiar English terms for large numbers to provide a systematic set of names for much larger numbers.

  8. Trillion - Wikipedia

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    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 English.

  9. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    In many short scale countries, milliard was dropped altogether and billion was redefined down to 10 9, adjusting downwards the value of trillion and all the larger numbers. 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 ...