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  2. 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 ...

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The name of a number 10 3n+3, where n is greater than or equal to 1000, is formed by concatenating the names of the numbers of the form 10 3m+3, where m represents each group of comma-separated digits of n, with each but the last "-illion" trimmed to "-illi-", or, in the case of m = 0, either "-nilli-" or "-nillion". [17]

  4. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    A very large number raised to a very large power is "approximately" equal to the larger of the following two values: the first value and 10 to the power the second. For example, for very large n {\displaystyle n} there is n n ≈ 10 n {\displaystyle n^{n}\approx 10^{n}} (see e.g. the computation of mega ) and also 2 n ≈ 10 n {\displaystyle 2 ...

  5. Aleph number - Wikipedia

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    Notably, ℵ ω is the first uncountable cardinal number that can be demonstrated within Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory not to be equal to the cardinality of the set of all real numbers 20: For any natural number n ≥ 1, we can consistently assume that 20 = ℵ n, and moreover it is possible to assume that 20 is as least as large ...

  6. List of types of numbers - Wikipedia

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    Ternary: The base-three numeral system with 0, 1, and 2 as digits. Quaternary: The base-four numeral system with 0, 1, 2, and 3 as digits. Hexadecimal: Base 16, widely used by computer system designers and programmers, as it provides a more human-friendly representation of binary-coded values.

  7. List of numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.

  8. List of prime numbers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of articles about prime numbers.A prime number (or prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. By Euclid's theorem, there are an infinite number of prime numbers.

  9. Infinitesimal - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, an infinitesimal number is a non-zero quantity that is closer to 0 than any non-zero real number is. The word infinitesimal comes from a 17th-century Modern Latin coinage infinitesimus , which originally referred to the " infinity - eth " item in a sequence .