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100000 (number), one hundred thousand; Hundreds & Thousands, 1985 album by Bronski Beat; Indefinite and fictitious numbers; Fairy bread This page was last edited on ...
The Oxford English Dictionary comments that googol and googolplex are "not in formal mathematical use". Usage of names of large numbers Some names of large numbers, such as million , billion , and trillion , have real referents in human experience, and are encountered in many contexts, particularly in finance and economics.
Primarily denotes one hundred years, but occasionally used, especially in the context of competitive racing, to refer to something consisting of one hundred, as in a 100-mile race. Dozen: 12 A collection of twelve things or units from Old French dozaine "a dozen, a number of twelve" in various usages, from doze (12c.) [2] Baker's dozen: 13
So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading.
A similar term is the Old Turkic word tümän, [13] whose variant forms remain in use for "ten thousand" among modern Mongolian, Turkish. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] According to Sir Gerard Clauson (1891–1974), it was likely borrowed from Tokharian tmān , which may have been borrowed in turn from Old Chinese tman 萬 > wan .
For example, hundreds and thousands is the most popular denotation used in United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to refer to nonpareils, a type of sprinkles. Another UK variant of the term is vermicelli , especially when said of chocolate sprinkles.
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Nonpareils are a decorative confections of tiny balls made with sugar and starch, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors.They are also known as hundreds and thousands in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, [1] and the United Kingdom.