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  2. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    100 000 000 000; short scale: one hundred billion; long scale: hundred thousand million, or hundred milliard) Astronomy: There are 100 billion planets located in the Milky Way. [30] [31] Biology – Neurons in the brain: approximately (1±0.2) × 10 11 neurons in the human brain. [32]

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Million Million Million M Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: 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 ...

  4. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    Some countries have had events of inflation of 1 million percent or more in a single month, which usually results in the rapid abandonment of the currency. For example, in November 2008 the monthly inflation rate of the Zimbabwean dollar reached 79.6 billion percent (470% per day); the approximate value with three significant figures would be 7 ...

  5. Doubling time - Wikipedia

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    As an example, Canada's net population growth was 2.7 percent in the year 2022, dividing 72 by 2.7 gives an approximate doubling time of about 27 years. Thus if that growth rate were to remain constant, Canada's population would double from its 2023 figure of about 39 million to about 78 million by 2050. [2]

  6. Sextillion (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Sextillion may mean either of the two numbers (see long and short scales for more detail): . 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one thousand million million million; 10 21; SI prefix zetta-) for all short scale countries

  7. World population milestones - Wikipedia

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    The Day of Five Billion, 11 July 1987, was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which the world population reached five billion. Matej Gašpar from Zagreb , Croatia (then SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person alive on Earth .

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Current data, which covers between January 1, 2013 and July 1, 2014, shows a dropout rate of 7.5 percent compared with the rate of 22 percent for the opioid addicts not in the program. In the first year, no addict in the new model curriculum died from an overdose.

  9. Odds - Wikipedia

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    This represents the odds against each, which are 4–6, 1–1 and 4–1, in order. These values now total 130%, meaning that the book has an overround of 30 (130−100). This value of 30 represents the amount of profit for the bookmaker if he gets bets in good proportions on each of the horses.