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  2. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    10 6, one million; 10 9, one milliard or one thousand million; 10 12, one billion; etc. Some examples of long scale use, and the words used for 10 9 and 10 12 , are Iran ( Persian : میلیارد miliyard , بیلیون billion , تریلیون trillion ) [ citation needed ]

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    10 6: Million Million Million M Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y Yotta ...

  4. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    This is the minimum number of characters needed to encode a 32 bit number into 5 printable characters in a process similar to MIME-64 encoding, since 85 5 is only slightly bigger than 2 32. Such method is 6.7% more efficient than MIME-64 which encodes a 24 bit number into 4 printable characters.

  5. Billion - Wikipedia

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    Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in Britain ...

  6. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    10 000 000 000; short scale: ten billion; long scale: ten thousand million, or ten milliard) Biology – bacteria in the human body: There are roughly 10 10 bacteria in the human mouth. [29] Computing – web pages: approximately 5.6 × 10 10 web pages indexed by Google as of 2010.

  7. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Where a power of ten has different names in the two conventions, the long scale name is shown in parentheses. The positive 10 power related to a short scale name can be determined based on its Latin name-prefix using the following formula: 10 [(prefix-number + 1) × 3] Examples: billion = 10 [(2 + 1) × 3] = 10 9; octillion = 10 [(8 + 1) × 3 ...

  8. Spain arrests top police officer after over $21 million found ...

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    During the raid, police found 20 million euros, or around $21.1 million, in cash hidden in the walls and ceilings of the couple's home in Alcala de Henares, a town of around 195,000 inhabitants ...

  9. Googol - Wikipedia

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    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). Carl Sagan pointed out that the total number of elementary particles in the universe is around 10 80 (the Eddington number ) and that if the whole universe were packed with neutrons so that there would be no empty space ...