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  2. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    100 000 000 000; short scale: one hundred billion; long scale: hundred thousand million, or hundred milliard) Astronomy: There are 100 billion planets located in the Milky Way. [30] [31] Biology – Neurons in the brain: approximately (1±0.2) × 10 11 neurons in the human brain. [32]

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system uses the named numbers common between the long and short scales up to ten thousand. For larger values, it includes named numbers at each multiple of 100; including lakh (10 5) and crore (10 7). [1] English also has words, such as zillion, that are used informally to mean large but unspecified amounts.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    Combinations of the unambiguous words such as ten, hundred, thousand and million. For example: one thousand million and one million million. [5] Scientific notation (for example 1 × 10 10), or its engineering notation variant (for example 10 × 10 9), or the computing variant E notation (for example 1e10). This is the most common practice ...

  6. 100,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    100,000,000 (one hundred million) is the natural number following 99,999,999 and preceding 100,000,001. In scientific notation , it is written as 10 8 . East Asian languages treat 100,000,000 as a counting unit, significant as the square of a myriad , also a counting unit.

  7. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 10 14), or 100 trillion/100 T; The Avogadro constant is the number of "elementary entities" (usually atoms or molecules) in one mole; the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12 – approximately 6.022 × 10 23, or 602.2 sextillion/60.2Sx.

  8. Mega Millions winning numbers for Dec. 27 lottery drawing ...

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    The last time a Mega Millions jackpot was claimed was in Texas on Sept. 10 when a lucky person won a $552 million jackpot. The winning numbers for the lottery were drawn just after 11 p.m. E.T. on ...

  9. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Ancient Greeks used a system based on the myriad, that is, ten thousand, and their largest named number was a myriad myriad, or one hundred million. In The Sand Reckoner , Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) devised a system of naming large numbers reaching up to