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  2. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    100 000 000 000; short scale: one hundred billion; long scale: hundred thousand million, or hundred milliard) Astronomy: There are 100 billion planets located in the Milky Way. [30] [31] Biology – Neurons in the brain: approximately (1±0.2) × 10 11 neurons in the human brain. [32]

  3. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, each of these words translates to the American English or post-1974 British English word: trillion (10 12 in the short scale), and not billion (10 9 in the short scale). On the other hand, the pre-1961 former French word billion , pre-1994 former Italian word bilione , Brazilian Portuguese word bilhão , and Welsh word biliwn all ...

  4. Trillion - Wikipedia

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    Visualization of 1 trillion (short scale) A Rubik's cube, which has about 43 trillion (long scale) possible positions. Trillion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English.

  5. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  6. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    These naming procedures are 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. Names of numbers above a trillion are rarely used in practice; such large numbers have practical usage primarily in the ...

  7. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)

  8. List of pieces which use the octatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    Trio for violin, oboe and piano, Artemis (2nd mov.) [2] Prelude No. 9 [2] [3] Mazurka No. 1 [2] Madeleine Dring; Lilliburlero Variations for Two Pianos [4] Prince Edmond de Polignac; Échos de l'Orient judaïque (1879) [5] "Chant à la lune", incidental music to Salammbô (1886) [6] Joseph Haydn; String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5 [7] The ...

  9. Aliquot stringing - Wikipedia

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    Many piano-makers [citation needed] enrich the tone of the piano through sympathetic vibration, but use a different method known as duplex scaling (see piano). Confusingly, the portions of the strings used in duplex scaling are sometimes called "aliquot strings", and the contact points used in duplex scales are called aliquots.