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  2. 1000 (number) - Wikipedia

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    1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. ... 1355 appears for the first time in the Recamán's sequence at n = 325,374,625,245. [251]

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Traditional American usage (which was also adapted from French usage but at a later date), Canadian, and modern British usage assign new names for each power of one thousand (the short scale). Thus, a billion is 1000 × 1000 2 = 10 9; a trillion is 1000 × 1000 3 = 10 12; and so forth.

  4. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    A unit of time is any particular time interval, used as a standard way of measuring or expressing duration. The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), and by extension most of the Western world , is the second , defined as about 9 billion oscillations of the caesium atom.

  5. 1,000,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or one milliard, one yard, [1] long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. With a number, "billion" can be abbreviated as b, bil [2] or bn. [3] [4] In standard form, it is written as 1 × 10 9. The metric prefix giga indicates 1,000,000,000 ...

  6. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    1,000 Slang for a thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. Gross: 144 Twelve dozen Score: 20 Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty.

  7. Trump administration backtracks on eliminating thousands of ...

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    Following a loud public outcry, and relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts, the Trump administration has reversed course on a plan to eliminate thousands of seasonal workers at the ...

  8. 10,000 - Wikipedia

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    has 52 references to ten thousand in the King James Version. [25] Revelation 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands. [26] hymn, Ten thousand times ten thousand. [27] The Ten thousand ...

  9. 'A Thousand Blows' review: Steven Knight's boxing drama is ...

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    The creator of 'Peaky Blinders' is back on his Victorian turf with a story of bare-knuckle boxing in East London, starring Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Malachi Kirby.