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  2. Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia

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    The Millennium Prize Problems are seven well-known complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. The Clay Institute has pledged a US $1 million prize for the first correct solution to each problem.

  3. Decimalisation - Wikipedia

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    Decimalisation or decimalization (see spelling differences) is the conversion of a system of currency or of weights and measures to units related by powers of 10.. Most countries have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are valued relative to the basic unit by a power of 10, most commonly ...

  4. Redenomination - Wikipedia

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    1 million old lira: 2005 "new" is an official designation and was dropped in 2009. New Taiwan dollar = 40 000 old dollars: 1949 "new" is an official designation and is still used in official documents today. Argentine austral = 1 000 Peso argentino: 1985 completely new name Yugoslav 1993 dinar = 1 million 1992 dinara 1993 no official ...

  5. South Korean won - Wikipedia

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    The banknotes include over 10 security features in each denomination. The 50,000 won note has 22 security features, the 10,000 won note 21, the 5,000 won note 17, the 2,000 won note 10 and the 1,000 won note 19. Many modern security features that can be also found in euros, pounds, Canadian dollars, and Japanese yen are included in the ...

  6. Superdollar - Wikipedia

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    The printer admitted to making 350,000 $100 bills, $35 million, over 18 months. [15] The gang was using equipment capable of printing £1 million per day, and claimed to produce $500,000 in fake dollars a day. [16] [17] The counterfeiting operation was running for over two years. [18]

  7. Metric prefix - Wikipedia

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    The financial and general news media mostly use m or M, b or B, and t or T as abbreviations for million, billion (10 9) and trillion (10 12), respectively, for large quantities, typically currency [28] and population. [29] The medical and automotive fields in the United States use the abbreviations cc or ccm for cubic centimetres.

  8. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    million mega- (M) 1 000 000: 10 6: 6 billion giga- (G) 1 000 000 000: 10 9: 9 trillion tera- (T) 1 000 000 000 000: 10 12: 12 quadrillion peta- (P) 1 000 000 000 000 000: 10 15: 15 quintillion exa- (E) 1 000 000 000 000 000 000: 10 18: 18 sextillion zetta- (Z) 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: 10 21: 21 septillion yotta- (Y) 1 000 000 000 000 000 ...

  9. 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]