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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Two naming scales for large numbers have been used in English and other European languages since the early modern era: the long and short scales.Most English variants use the short scale today, but the long scale remains dominant in many non-English-speaking areas, including continental Europe and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America.

  3. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    Many languages have words expressing indefinite and fictitious numbers—inexact terms of indefinite size, used for comic effect, for exaggeration, as placeholder names, or when precision is unnecessary or undesirable.

  4. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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    Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers.In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words.

  5. List of types of numbers - Wikipedia

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    Positive numbers: Real numbers that are greater than zero.; Negative numbers: Real numbers that are less than zero.Because zero itself has no sign, neither the positive numbers nor the negative numbers include zero.

  6. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, the years after 1009 (until 1099) are also read in the same manner (e.g. 1015 is either ten fifteen or, rarely, one thousand fifteen). Some Britons read years within the 1000s to 9000s BC/BCE in the American manner, that is, 1234 BC is read as twelve (hundred and) thirty-four BC, while 2400 BC can be read as either two thousand four ...

  7. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are Quantifiers.

  8. Ordinal numeral - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on (e.g., "third", "tertiary").

  9. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    The long and short scales are two of several naming systems for integer powers of ten which use some of the same terms for different magnitudes. [1] [2]Some languages, particularly in East Asia and South Asia, have large number naming systems that are different from both the long and short scales, such as the Indian numbering system and the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean numerals.