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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    In this notation, powers of ten are expressed as 10 with a numeric superscript, e.g. "The X-ray emission of the radio galaxy is 1.3 × 10 45 joules." When a number such as 10 45 needs to be referred to in words, it is simply read out as "ten to the forty-fifth" or "ten to the forty-five". This is easier to say and less ambiguous than ...

  3. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be used to mean either a definite (she has a million followers now) or an indefinite value (she signed what felt like a million papers). The title The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (lit. "a thousand nights and one night") impiles a large number of nights. [22]

  4. Googol - Wikipedia

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    To put in perspective the size of a googol, the mass of an electron, just under 10-30 kg, can be compared to the mass of the visible universe, estimated at between 10 50 and 10 60 kg. [5] It is a ratio in the order of about 10 80 to 10 90, or at most one ten-billionth of a googol (0.00000001% of a googol).

  5. Numeral (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example "billion" may be easier to comprehend for some readers than "1,000,000,000". But, as names, a numeric value can be lengthy. For example, "2,345,789" is "two million, three hundred forty five thousand, seven hundred and eighty nine".

  7. Number - Wikipedia

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    For example, 123.456 represents ⁠ 123456 / 1000 ⁠, or, in words, one hundred, two tens, three ones, four tenths, five hundredths, and six thousandths. A real number can be expressed by a finite number of decimal digits only if it is rational and its fractional part has a denominator whose prime factors are 2 or 5 or both, because these are ...

  8. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    1/52! chance of a specific shuffle Mathematics: The chances of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in any specific order is around 1.24 × 10 −68 (or exactly 1 ⁄ 52!) [4] Computing: The number 1.4 × 10 −45 is approximately equal to the smallest positive non-zero value that can be represented by a single-precision IEEE floating-point value.

  9. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    One thousand: Ten hundred 1K 1004: One thousand (and) four: Ten oh-four 1010: Ten ten: One thousand (and) ten 1050: Ten fifty: One thousand (and) fifty 1225: Twelve twenty-five: One-two-two-five One thousand, two hundred (and) twenty-five Twelve-two-five 1900: Nineteen hundred: One thousand, nine hundred Nineteen aught 1901: Nineteen oh-one ...