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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The name of a number 10 3n+3, where n is greater than or equal to 1000, is formed by concatenating the names of the numbers of the form 10 3m+3, where m represents each group of comma-separated digits of n, with each but the last "-illion" trimmed to "-illi-", or, in the case of m = 0, either "-nilli-" or "-nillion". [17]

  3. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    9 + 1 ⁄ 2 ⁠9 + 1 / 2 ⁠ Numbers with a decimal point may be read as a cardinal number, then "and", then another cardinal number followed by an indication of the significance of the second cardinal number (mainly U.S.); or as a cardinal number, followed by "point", and then by the digits of the fractional part. The indication of ...

  4. Billion - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] 1,000,000,000,000 , i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale . This number is the historical sense of the word and remains the established sense of the word in other European languages.

  5. Windows Calculator - Wikipedia

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    A simple arithmetic calculator was first included with Windows 1.0. [6]In Windows 3.0, a scientific mode was added, which included exponents and roots, logarithms, factorial-based functions, trigonometry (supports radian, degree and gradians angles), base conversions (2, 8, 10, 16), logic operations, statistical functions such as single variable statistics and linear regression.

  6. Carnegie Unit and Student Hour - Wikipedia

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    The Student Hour is approximately 12 hours of class or contact time, approximately 1/10 of the Carnegie Unit (as explained below). As it is used today, a Student Hour is the equivalent of one hour (50 minutes) of lecture time for a single student per week over the course of a semester, usually 14 to 16 weeks.

  7. Time-to-digital converter - Wikipedia

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    The time-to-digital converter measures the time between a start event and a stop event. There is also a digital-to-time converter or delay generator. The delay generator converts a number to a time delay. When the delay generator gets a start pulse at its input, then it outputs a stop pulse after the specified delay.

  8. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be used to mean either a definite (she has a million followers now) or an indefinite value (she signed what felt like a million papers). The title The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (lit. "a thousand nights and one night") impiles a large number of nights. [22]

  9. Instructions per second - Wikipedia

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    Computer processing efficiency, measured as the power needed per million instructions per second (watts per MIPS) Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed.