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1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000. A group of one thousand things is sometimes known, from Ancient Greek, as a chiliad. [1]
Traditional American usage (which was also adapted from French usage but at a later date), Canadian, and modern British usage assign new names for each power of one thousand (the short scale). Thus, a billion is 1000 × 1000 2 = 10 9 ; a trillion is 1000 × 1000 3 = 10 12 ; and so forth.
1,000,000 (one million), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix -one. [1] It is commonly abbreviated:
The United States one-thousand-dollar bill was printed from 1861 to 1945. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) continued to issue the notes until 1969. The notes did not see much circulation among the public because they were printed to facilitate transactions between banks.
Step counting had long been used to measure distance—the word “mile” comes from the Latin milia passuum, or “one thousand paces,” and it’s said da Vinci thought his device could help ...
So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading.
In Arabic, 1001 is used similarly, as in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (lit. "a thousand nights and one night"). [3] Many modern English book titles use this convention as well: 1,001 Uses for .... In Chinese, 十萬八千里; 十万八千里; shí wàn bā qiān lǐ, 108,000 li, means a great distance.
One thousand and one is a sphenic number, a pentagonal number, a pentatope number [1] and the first four-digit palindromic number. Scheherazade numbers always have 1001 as a factor. Divisibility by 7, 11 and 13