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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    To do this, he called the numbers up to a myriad myriad (10 8) "first numbers" and called 10 8 itself the "unit of the second numbers". Multiples of this unit then became the second numbers, up to this unit taken a myriad myriad times, 10 8 ·10 8 =10 16. This became the "unit of the third numbers", whose multiples were the third numbers, and ...

  3. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number of cells in the human body (estimated at 3.72 × 10 13), or 37.2 trillion/37.2 T [3] The number of bits on a computer hard disk (as of 2024, typically about 10 13, 1–2 TB), or 10 trillion/10T; The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 10 14), or 100 trillion/100 T

  4. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Far larger finite numbers than any of these occur in modern mathematics. For instance, Graham's number is too large to reasonably express using exponentiation or even tetration. For more about modern usage for large numbers, see Large numbers. To handle these numbers, new notations are created and used. There is a large community of ...

  5. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    Thus, in France and Italy, some scientists then began using billion to mean 10 9, trillion to mean 10 12, etc. [28] This usage formed the origins of the later short scale. The majority of scientists either continued to say thousand million or changed the meaning of the Pelletier term, milliard, from "million of millions" down to "thousand ...

  6. Trillion - Wikipedia

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    Visualization of 1 trillion (short scale) A Rubik's cube, which has about 43 trillion (long scale) possible positions. Trillion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English.

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  8. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    About 31,709 years. megaannum: 10 6 yr: Also called "megayear". 1000 millennia (plural of millennium), or 1 million years (in geology, abbreviated as Ma). petasecond: 10 15 s: About 31 709 791 years. galactic year: 2.3 × 10 8 yr: The amount of time it takes the Solar System to orbit the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (approx 230 000 000 years ...

  9. Nvidia investors are on top of the world—but to justify its ...

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    So let's start with what was required before the mega-bump, to reach returns of 10% a year. When Nvidia's cap was $1.66 trillion, it had to notch a valuation of $4.33 trillion by 2034 to reach our ...