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  2. Trillion - Wikipedia

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    Trillion. Visualization of 1 trillion (short scale) A Rubik's cube, which has about 43 trillion (long scale) possible positions. Trillion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Ludology – Number of games: Approximately 1,181,019 video games have been created as of 2019. [16] Biology – Species: The World Resources Institute claims that approximately 1.4 million species have been named, out of an unknown number of total species (estimates range between 2 and 100 million species). Some scientists give 8.8 million ...

  4. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    In written communications, the simplest solution for moderately large numbers is to write the full amount, for example 1,000,000,000,000 rather than 1 trillion (short scale) or 1 billion (long scale). Combinations of the unambiguous word million, for example: 10 9 = "one thousand million"; 10 12 = "one million million". [66]

  5. Mega Millions - Wikipedia

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    www.megamillions.com. Mega Millions (originally known as The Big Game in 1996 and renamed, temporarily, to The Big Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multijurisdictional lottery game. The first drawing took place on September 6, 1996, with six participating states, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Virginia.

  6. 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 Britain ...

  7. 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) may be named.

  8. Amateur mathematician discovers largest known prime number ...

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    The number, 2 136,279,841 – 1, is over 16 million digits larger than the previous one. Among prime numbers, there is a class called Mersenne primes of the form 2 P -1, named after 16th Century ...

  9. Googol - Wikipedia

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    A googol is the large number 10 100 or ten to the power of one ... possibilities in a chess game. ... of the £1 million question in a 2001 ...