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The term originated as an abstraction of the sequence: single, couple/double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuple, octuple, ..., n ‑tuple, ..., where the prefixes are taken from the Latin names of the numerals. The unique 0-tuple is called the null tuple or empty tuple.
The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely 1 with one hundred zeroes after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name.
The term sextuple is mainly used in the sports press for winning six important national and international titles in sport, especially in football, within one sporting year or season. During a football season, clubs typically take part in a number of national competitions, such as in a league and one or more cup competitions, and sometimes in ...
In the 2010s, the terms quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple have sometimes been used to refer to winning four, five, and six trophies in a single season. [2] [3] [4 ...
A sextuple bond is a type of covalent bond involving 12 bonding electrons and in which the bond order is 6. The only known molecules with true sextuple bonds are the diatomic dimolybdenum ( Mo 2 ) and ditungsten ( W 2 ), which exist in the gaseous phase and have boiling points of 4,639 °C (8,382 °F) and 5,930 °C (10,710 °F) respectively.
In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on (e.g., "third", "tertiary").
Sextuple (association football) List of association football teams to have won four or more trophies in one season; List of football clubs by competitive honours won; Triple Crown of Brazilian Football; Three-peat
After the new editors announced a controversial new championship policy in May 2012, three prominent members of the Ring Advisory Panel resigned. This three members (Springs Toledo, Cliff Rold and Tim Starks) became the founding members of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board , which was formed over the summer of 2012 with the assistance of ...