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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    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 Thousand quintillion Quintilliard 11 6 10 36: Undecillion ...

  3. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    For example, there is one order of magnitude between 2 and 20, and two orders of magnitude between 2 and 200. Each division or multiplication by 10 is called an order of magnitude. [ 3 ] This phrasing helps quickly express the difference in scale between 2 and 2,000,000: they differ by 6 orders of magnitude.

  4. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, class 5 is defined to include numbers between 10 10 10 10 6 and 10 10 10 10 10 6, which are numbers where X becomes humanly indistinguishable from X 2 [14] (taking iterated logarithms of such X yields indistinguishibility firstly between log(X) and 2log(X), secondly between log(log(X)) and 1+log(log(X)), and finally an extremely ...

  5. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics: √ 3 ≈ 1.732 050 807 568 877 293, the ratio of the diagonal of a unit cube. Mathematics: the number system understood by most computers, the binary system, uses 2 digits: 0 and 1. Mathematics: √ 5 ≈ 2.236 067 9775, the correspondent to the diagonal of a rectangle whose side lengths are 1 and 2.

  6. Googol - Wikipedia

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    Kasner used it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity, and in this role it is sometimes used in teaching mathematics. To put in perspective the size of a googol, the mass of an electron, just under 10 −30 kg, can be compared to the mass of the visible universe, estimated at between 10 50 and 10 60 kg. [ 5 ]

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

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    For one brief, sparkling moment, an eBay user thought he'd been granted the nominal title of Earth's only quadrillionaire by the auction site's online payment service.In fact, his monthly PayPal ...

  8. 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).

  9. 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]