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  2. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be used to mean either a definite (she has a million followers now) or an indefinite value (she signed what felt like a million papers). The title The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (lit. "a thousand nights and one night") impiles a large number of nights. [22]

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    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 Yotta-8 4 10 ...

  4. 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

  5. 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]

  6. List of types of numbers - Wikipedia

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    Algebraic number: Any number that is the root of a non-zero polynomial with rational coefficients. Transcendental number: Any real or complex number that is not algebraic. Examples include e and π. Trigonometric number: Any number that is the sine or cosine of a rational multiple of π.

  7. Suze Orman once warned '$2 million is nothing' when it ... - AOL

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    Suze Orman may not believe that a $2 million dollar retirement portfolio is enough to see you through your golden years, but there are still many methods to grow savings that can give retirees a ...

  8. 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.

  9. Huge healthcare data breach exposes over 1 million ... - AOL

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    UnitedHealth initially claimed that 100 million Americans were affected, but later raised that number to 190 million. There have been countless other incidents, and now you can add another to the ...