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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Traditional British usage assigned new names for each power of one million (the long scale): 1,000,000 = 1 million; 1,000,000 2 = 1 billion; 1,000,000 3 = 1 trillion; and so on. It was adapted from French usage, and is similar to the system that was documented or invented by Chuquet .

  3. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    There are names for numbers larger than crore, but they are less commonly used. These include arab (100 crore, 1 billion), kharab (100 arab, 100 billion), nil or sometimes transliterated as neel (100 kharab, 10 trillion), padma (100 nil, 1 quadrillion), shankh (100 padma, 100 quadrillion), and mahashankh (100 shankh, 10

  4. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang, Geologic time scale, Timeline of evolution, and Logarithmic timeline.

  5. Googol - Wikipedia

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    The decay time for a supermassive black hole of roughly 1 galaxy-mass (10 11 solar masses) due to Hawking radiation is on the order of 10 100 years. [7] Therefore, the heat death of an expanding universe is lower-bounded to occur at least one googol years in the future. A googol is considerably smaller than a centillion. [8]

  6. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    1/52! chance of a specific shuffle Mathematics: The chances of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in any specific order is around 1.24 × 10 −68 (or exactly 1 ⁄ 52!) [4] Computing: The number 1.4 × 10 −45 is approximately equal to the smallest positive non-zero value that can be represented by a single-precision IEEE floating-point value.

  7. 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.

  8. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    A calendar date is fully specified by the year (numbered according to a calendar era, in this case Anno Domini or Common Era), the month (identified by name or number), and the day of the month (numbered sequentially starting from 1). Although the calendar year currently runs from 1 January to 31 December, at previous times year numbers were ...

  9. Calendar year - Wikipedia

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    The Lunar Hijri calendar ("Islamic calendar") is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. [ a ] The astronomer's mean tropical year , which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices, is currently 365.24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the calendar year in most calendars.