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but Particle velocities eventually reached almost two-thirds the 300-million-metre-per-second speed of light. checks worth $250 (equivalent to $1,800 in 2016) (not $1,845.38 in 2016) The city's 1920 population was 10,000 (not population was 9,996 – an official figure unlikely to be accurate at full precision)
The years 2000 to 2009 are most often read as two thousand, two thousand (and) one and the like by both British and American speakers. For years after 2009, twenty eleven, twenty fourteen, etc. are more common, even in years earlier than 2009 BC/BCE.
In English, these higher words are hundred 10 2, thousand 10 3, million 10 6, and higher powers of a thousand (short scale) or of a million (long scale—see names of large numbers). These words cannot modify a noun without being preceded by an article or numeral (* hundred dogs played in the park ), and so are nouns.
Richter scale equivalent Media coverage 1 0–3 Small articles in local papers 2 3–5 Lead story on local news; mentioned on network news 3 5–6.5 Lead story on network news; wire-service photos appear in newspapers nationally; governor visits scene 4 6.5–7.5
The related concept of permille, or parts per thousand (ppt), means a denominator of 1000, and this parts-per notation is commonly used with larger denominators, such as million and billion, e.g. 75 parts per million (ppm) means that the proportion is 75 / 1 000 000 .
During Joseon, Koreans used cheonse (Korean: 천세; Hanja: 千歲, "one thousand years") in deference to the Chinese emperor's ten thousand years. In the 20th century, various protests against Japanese occupation used the term in their names, including a pro-independence newspaper established in 1906, the March 1st Movement of 1919, and the ...
In 1950, the average American life span was 65 years, he pointed out during a panel he spoke at called “Navigating Longer Life Spans.” Today, it’s more like 77.5 years—an almost 13-year gain.
The total number of under-5 deaths worldwide has declined from 12.6 million in 1990 to approximately 5.5 million in 2020. Since 1990, the global under-5 mortality rate has dropped by 59%, from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 36 in 2020. This is equivalent to 1 in 11 children dying before reaching age 5 in 1990 compared to 1 in 27 in 2019.