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  2. Googol - Wikipedia

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    A googol is the large number 10 100 or ten to the ... it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros: 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 ...

  3. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 10 14), or 100 trillion/100 T The Avogadro constant is the number of "elementary entities" (usually atoms or molecules) in one mole ; the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12 – approximately 6.022 × 10 23 , or 602.2 sextillion/60.2Sx.

  4. Googolplex - Wikipedia

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    A googolplex is the large number 10 ... 10 10 100 or 10 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000 ... A typical book can be printed with 10 6 zeros ...

  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. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number 10,000 is used to express an even larger approximate number, as in Hebrew רבבה r e vâvâh, [36] rendered into Greek as μυριάδες, and to English myriad. [37] Similar usage is found in the East Asian 萬 or 万 ( lit. 10,000; pinyin : wàn ), and the South Asian lakh ( lit. 100,000).

  7. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000. 10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics; 10 googol: googolplex (1 followed by a googol of zeros) 10 googolplex: googolplexplex (1 followed by a googolplex of zeros) Combinations of numbers in most sports scores are read as in the following ...

  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 ...

  9. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The ultimate in large numbers was, until recently, the concept of infinity, a number defined by being greater than any finite number, and used in the mathematical theory of limits. However, since the 19th century, mathematicians have studied transfinite numbers , numbers which are not only greater than any finite number, but also, from the ...