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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    7 d: Historically sometimes also called "sennight". decaday 10 d (1 Dd) 10 days. A period of time analogous to the concept of "week", used by different societies around the world: the ancient Egyptian calendar, the ancient Chinese calendar, and also the French Republican calendar (in which it was called a décade). megasecond: 10 6 s: About 11. ...

  3. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).

  4. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Different cultures used different traditional numeral systems for naming large numbers.The extent of large numbers used varied in each culture. Two interesting points in using large numbers are the confusion on the term billion and milliard in many countries, and the use of zillion to denote a very large number where precision is not required.

  5. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    His 100-year life (311.04 trillion years) is called a mahā-kalpa, which is followed by a mahā-pralaya (full dissolution) of equal length, where the bases of the universe, prakriti, is manifest at the start and unmanifest at the end of a maha-kalpa. His 100-year life is divided into two 50-year periods, each called a parārdha.

  6. The world is sitting on a $91 trillion problem. ‘Hard choices ...

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    Governments owe an unprecedented $91 trillion, an amount almost equal to the size of the global economy and one that will ultimately exact a heavy toll on their populations. The world is sitting ...

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

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    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

  8. Rule of 72: What it is and how to use it - AOL

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    The natural log of 2 is 0.693147, so when you solve for t using those natural logarithms, you get t = 0.693147/r.. The actual results aren’t round numbers and are closer to 69.3, but 72 easily ...

  9. How Much Money Is in the World Right Now? - AOL

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    Money is also present in the form of investments and derivatives. The total global market capitalization of the world’s roughly 80 major stock exchanges is $110.2 trillion according to Visual ...