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The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers secondary and tertiary and the distributive numbers binary and ternary. For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent- , from the original Latin, and those in -cent- , derived from centi- , etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .
99.3 is "ninety-nine point three"; or "ninety-nine and three tenths" (U.S., occasionally). In English the decimal point was originally printed in the center of the line (0·002), but with the advent of the typewriter it was placed at the bottom of the line, so that a single key could be used as a full stop/period and as a decimal point.
Based on this series of numerals there is a series of adverbs: simpliciter 'simply, frankly', dupliciter 'doubly, ambiguously', tripliciter 'in three different ways' etc., as well as verbs such as duplicāre 'to double', triplicāre 'to triple', quadruplicāre 'to make four times as much', and so on.
[3] Twenty-eight is a harmonic divisor number, [4] a happy number, [5] the 7th triangular number, [6] a hexagonal number, [7] a Leyland number of the second kind [8] (), and a centered nonagonal number. [9] It appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by the terms 12, 16, 21 (it is the sum of the first two of these). [10]
There are exactly twenty-seven straight lines on a smooth cubic surface, [2] which give a basis of the fundamental representation of Lie algebra. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The unique simple formally real Jordan algebra , the exceptional Jordan algebra of self-adjoint 3 by 3 matrices of quaternions , is 27-dimensional; [ 5 ] its automorphism group is the 52 ...
[32] [33] Craigie wrote the song when he himself was age 27. [34] The theme is referenced in the song "27 Forever" by Eric Burdon, on his 2013 album 'Til Your River Runs Dry. [35] Magenta's studio album The Twenty Seven Club (2013) directly references the club. Each track is a tribute to a member of the club. [36]
This piece may be performed with Twenty-Eight (Fifty-Four), Twenty-Nine (Fifty-Five), or both (Eighty-Three). All time brackets contain a single sound. The first violin starts the videoclock. Twenty-Eight: 3 flutes, 1 alto flute, 4 clarinets, 3 oboes, 1 English horn, 3 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 4 trumpets, 4 horns, 2 trombones, 1 bass trombone ...
One billionth of a second. Time for molecules to fluoresce. shake: 10 −8 s: 10 nanoseconds, also a casual term for a short period of time. microsecond: 10 −6 s: One millionth of a second. Symbol is μs millisecond: 10 −3 s: One thousandth of a second. Shortest time unit used on stopwatches. jiffy (electronics) ~ 10 −3 s