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  2. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Depending on context (i.e. language, culture, region, ...) some large numbers have names that allow for describing large quantities in a textual form; not mathematical.For very large values, the text is generally shorter than a decimal numeric representation although longer than scientific notation.

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    An amount of powdered drug (usually cocaine) drawn out for the purpose of snorting through a straw a group of persons, usually waiting for something, arranged in order of arrival (UK: queue) a lie, short for a line of bull a phrase used for hitting on women, short for pickup line to hit a line drive (a hard straight shot) in baseball liquor

  5. These Companies Paid Massive Sums to Settle Lawsuits - AOL

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    The lawsuits drove the company to declare bankruptcy in 1995, before it agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle claims from 240,000 women in amounts ranging from $2,000 to $250,000 each in 2004 ...

  6. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Large numbers, far beyond those encountered in everyday life—such as simple counting or financial transactions—play a crucial role in various domains.These expansive quantities appear prominently in mathematics, cosmology, cryptography, and statistical mechanics.

  7. Creative - Wikipedia

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    Creative may refer to: Creativity, phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is created "Creative" (song), a 2008 song by Leon Jackson; Creative class, a proposed socioeconomic class; Creative destruction, an economic term; Creative director, an occupation; Creative industries, exchange of finance for rights in intellectual properties

  8. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    50 – 100 megabits – amount of information in a typical phone book: 2 26: 10 8: 67,108,864 bit (8 mebibytes) 2 27: 134,217,728 bits (16 mebibytes) 150 megabits – amount of data in a large foldout map: 2 28: 268,435,456 bits (32 mebibytes) 144,000,000 bits: In 1980 an 18 MB hard disk cost US$4,199, [5] equivalent to $16,024 in 2024.

  9. Fine (penalty) - Wikipedia

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    However, the amount of the fine must be at least €3. [15] The sums of categories are always 1, 10, 20, 50, 200 and 2000 times the amount of the first category. In addition to the fine, the convict also has to pay an administration fee [16] of €9. [17] The amounts are established by the government, via a royal order. [15]