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2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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   The naming procedure for large numbers is based on taking the number n occurring in 10 3n+3 (short scale) or 10 6n (long scale) and concatenating Latin roots for its units, tens, and hundreds place, together with the suffix -illion. In this way, numbers up to 10 3·999+3 = 10 3000 (short scale) or 10 6·999 = 10 5994 (long scale) may be named.

3. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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   The Indian numbering system corresponds to the Western system for the zeroth through fourth powers of ten: one (10 0), ten (10 1), one hundred (10 2), one thousand (10 3), and ten thousand (10 4). For higher powers of ten, the names no longer correspond. In the ancient Indian system still in use in regional languages of India, there are words ...

4. English numerals - Wikipedia

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   10,000: a myriad (a hundred hundred), commonly used in the sense of an indefinite very high number. 100,000: a lakh (a hundred thousand), in Indian English. 10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000. 10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics.

5. Natural number - Wikipedia

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   The natural numbers form a set, commonly symbolized as a bold N or blackboard bold ⁠ ⁠. Many other number sets are built from the natural numbers. For example, the integers are made by adding 0 and negative numbers. The rational numbers add fractions, and the real numbers add infinite decimals.

6. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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   Indefinite and fictitious numbers. 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. One technical term for such words is "non-numerical vague quantifier". [1]

7. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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   0.000 000 001; 1000 −3; short scale: one billionth; long scale: one milliardth) ISO: nano- (n) Mathematics – Lottery: The odds of winning the Grand Prize (matching all 6 numbers) in the US Powerball lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as of October 2015 [update] , are 292,201,338 to 1 against, for a probability of 3.422 × 10 − ...

8. List of types of numbers - Wikipedia

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   Ternary: The base-three numeral system with 0, 1, and 2 as digits. Quaternary: The base-four numeral system with 0, 1, 2, and 3 as digits. Hexadecimal: Base 16, widely used by computer system designers and programmers, as it provides a more human-friendly representation of binary-coded values.

9. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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   As a non-positional numeral system, Roman numerals have no "place-keeping" zeros. Furthermore, the system as used by the Romans lacked a numeral for the number zero itself (that is, what remains after 1 is subtracted from 1). The word nulla (the Latin word meaning "none") was used to represent 0, although the earliest attested instances are ...