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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.
The origin of the division of counties into hundreds is described by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as "exceedingly obscure".It may once have referred to an area of 100 hides; in early Anglo-Saxon England a hide was the amount of land farmed by and required to support a peasant family, but by the eleventh century in many areas it supported four families. [1]
List of hundreds of England and Wales may refer to: List of hundreds of England.
This section illustrates several systems for naming large numbers, and shows how they can be extended past vigintillion. Traditional British usage assigned new names for each power of one million (the long scale): 1,000,000 = 1 million; 1,000,0002 = 1 billion; 1,000,0003 = 1 trillion; and so on. It was adapted from French usage, and is similar ...
For identical names, the long scale proceeds by powers of one million, whereas the short scale proceeds by powers of one thousand. For example, the short scale "one billion" (in many languages other than English called "one milliard", even on the short scale) means one thousand million (1,000,000,000), whereas in the long scale, "one billion ...
Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred. Century is sometimes abbreviated as c. [1] A centennial or centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier.
1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001.In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000.
A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.