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  2. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    Unlike cardinal numbers these can be pluralized, in which case they require of before the noun (millions of dollars, but five million dollars) and require the indefinite article "a" in the singular (a million letters (indefinite) but one million letters (definite)). In French, 36 and 36,000 are occasionally used as a synonym for "very many".

  3. 1,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    Volume: The cube root of one million is one hundred, so a million objects or cubic units is contained in a cube a hundred objects or linear units on a side. A million grains of table salt or granulated sugar occupies about 64 mL (2.3 imp fl oz; 2.2 US fl oz), the volume of a cube one hundred grains on a side.

  4. 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.

  5. 260 (number) - Wikipedia

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    The minor diagonal gives 260, and in addition a number of combinations of two half diagonals of four numbers from a corner to the center give 260. There are 260 days in the Mayan sacred calendar Tzolkin. 260 may also refer to the years AD 260 and 260 BC.

  6. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Genocide: An estimated 12 million persons shipped from Africa to the New World in the Atlantic slave trade. Mathematics: 12,988,816 is the number of domino tilings of an 8×8 checkerboard. Genocide/Famine: 15 million is an estimated lower bound for the death toll of the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine, the deadliest known famine in human history.

  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. Googol - Wikipedia

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    A googol is the large number 10 100 or ten to the power of one hundred. ... The word is notable for being the subject of the £1 million question in a 2001 episode ...

  9. 205 (number) - Wikipedia

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    two hundred five: Ordinal: 205th (two hundred fifth) Factorization: ... There are 205 different ways of forming a connected graph by adding six edges to a set of five ...