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For example: 150,000 rupees is "1.5 lakh rupees" which can be written as "1,50,000 rupees", and 30,000,000 (thirty million) rupees is referred to as "3 crore rupees" which can be written as "3,00,00,000 rupees". There are names for numbers larger than crore, but they are less commonly used.
A natural language numbering system allows for representing large numbers using names that more clearly distinguish numeric scale than a series of digits. For example "billion" may be easier to comprehend for some readers than "1,000,000,000".
Later, French arithmeticians changed the words' meanings, adopting the short scale definition whereby three zeros rather than six were added at each step, so a billion came to denote a thousand million (10 9), a trillion became a million million (10 12), and so on. This new convention was adopted in the United States in the 19th century, but ...
By Archimedes's calculation, the universe of Aristarchus (roughly 2 light years in diameter), if fully packed with sand, would contain 10 63 grains. If the much larger observable universe of today were filled with sand, it would still only equal 10 95 grains. Another 100,000 observable universes filled with sand would be necessary to make a googol.
Starlink doubled in size last year, doubling the number of internet customers it serves, growing revenue 95%, and thus adding $8.2 billion to the $4.2 billion in launch revenue SpaceX made last year.
What will 45.6 billion won get you in Korea? How much would 45.6 billion won mean to a “normal” person in Korea? Well, the average monthly salary in Korea is 3.9 million won, or around $2,696 ...
Any object that weighs one billion kilograms (2.2 × 10 9 lb) would weigh about as much as 5,525 empty Boeing 747-400s. A cube of iron that weighs one billion pounds (450,000,000 kg) would be 38.62 metres (126.7 ft) on each side.
It’s hard to imagine just what you can buy with all that money. But imagine if you had $115.6 billion like Bill Gates . You too would probably think a box of frozen pizza rolls cost $22 , and ...