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10,000: a myriad (a hundred hundred), commonly used in the sense of an indefinite very high number. 100,000: a lakh (a hundred thousand), in Indian English. 10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000. 10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics.
A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈθaʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" (mille in Latin).
One fortieth, twenty-five thousandths, [zero] point zero two five 0.02 1 / 50 One fiftieth, two hundredths, [zero] point zero two 0.016 666... 1 / 60 One sixtieth 0.015625 1 / 64 One sixty-fourth, ten thousand fifty six-hundred [and] twenty-five millionths, [zero] point zero one five six two five 0.012 345 679 012 345 ...
The mill (American English) or mil (Commonwealth English, except Canada) is a unit of currency, used in several countries as one-thousandth of the base unit. It is symbolized as ₥, the MILL SIGN character in Unicode. In the United States, it is a notional unit equivalent to a thousandth of a United States dollar (a hundredth of a dime or a ...
The naming procedure for large numbers is based on taking the number n occurring in 10 3n+3 (short scale) or 10 6n (long scale) and concatenating Latin roots for its units, tens, and hundreds place, together with the suffix -illion. In this way, numbers up to 10 3·999+3 = 10 3000 (short scale) or 10 6·999 = 10 5994 (long scale) may be named.
A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode combining characters and Latin characters. The numerals and derived numbers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) have been reconstructed by modern linguists based on similarities found across all Indo-European languages.
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