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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    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 27: Octillion Thousand quadrillion Quadrilliard R Ronna-9 5 10 30: Nonillion Quintillion Quintillion Q Quetta-10 5 10 33: Decillion ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Computing – UTF-8: 2,147,483,648 (2 31) possible code points (U+0000 - U+7FFFFFFF) in the pre-2003 version of UTF-8 (including five- and six-byte sequences), before the UTF-8 code space was limited to the much smaller set of values encodable in UTF-16. Biology – base pairs in the genome: approximately 3.3 × 10 9 base pairs in the human ...

  4. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] Umpty came from a verbalization of a dash in Morse code. [6] "Umpteen", adding the ending -teen, as in "thirteen", is first attested in 1884, [8] [9] [3] [10] and has become by far the most common form. [11] In Norwegian, ørten is used in a similar way, playing on the numbers from tretten (13) to nitten (19), but often signifying a ...

  5. Floating point operations per second - Wikipedia

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    It is named after the Japanese word "kei", which stands for 10 quadrillion, [55] corresponding to the target speed of 10 petaFLOPS. On November 15, 2011, Intel demonstrated a single x86-based processor, code-named "Knights Corner", sustaining more than a teraFLOPS on a wide range of DGEMM operations.

  6. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    It has been taught in American schools since the early 1800s. [7] It has since become common in other English-speaking nations and several other countries. For most of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the United Kingdom largely used the long scale, [ 4 ] [ 8 ] whereas the United States used the short scale, [ 8 ] so that the two systems were ...

  7. Wheat and chessboard problem - Wikipedia

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    The total number of grains can be shown to be 2 64 −1 or 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 (eighteen quintillion, four hundred forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred nine million, five hundred fifty-one thousand, six hundred and fifteen).

  8. PayPal Glitch Actually Put Man $92 Quadrillion in the Red - AOL

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    In fact, his monthly PayPal statement showed a negative balance of more than $92 quadrillion, which would have made him more than 5,500 times more indebted than the United States government.

  9. -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.