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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Adam and Chuquet used the long scale of powers of a million; that is, Adam's bymillion (Chuquet's byllion) denoted 10 12, and Adam's trimillion (Chuquet's tryllion) denoted 10 18. The googol family The names googol and googolplex were invented by Edward Kasner 's nephew Milton Sirotta and introduced in Kasner and Newman's 1940 book Mathematics ...

  3. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Visualisation of powers of 10 from one to 1 trillion. A power of 10 is any of the integer powers of the number ten; in other words, ten multiplied by itself a certain number of times (when the power is a positive integer). By definition, the number one is a power (the zeroth power) of ten. The first few non-negative powers of ten are: 1, 10 ...

  4. Googol - Wikipedia

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    To put in perspective the size of a googol, the mass of an electron, just under 10-30 kg, can be compared to the mass of the visible universe, estimated at between 10 50 and 10 60 kg. [5] It is a ratio in the order of about 10 80 to 10 90, or at most one ten-billionth of a googol (0.00000001% of a googol).

  5. Googolplex - Wikipedia

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    A typical book can be printed with 10 6 zeros (around 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line). Therefore, it requires 10 94 such books to print all the zeros of a googolplex (that is, printing a googol zeros). [4] If each book had a mass of 100 grams, all of them would have a total mass of 10 93 kilograms.

  6. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Panchavimsha Brahmana lists 10 9 as nikharva, 10 10 vâdava, 10 11 akṣiti, while Śâṅkhyâyana Śrauta Sûtra has 10 9 nikharva, 10 10 samudra, 10 11 salila, 10 12 antya, 10 13 ananta. Such lists of names for powers of ten are called daśaguṇottarra saṁjñâ. There area also analogous lists of Sanskrit names for ...

  7. Google invests in Intersect Power in over $800 million ...

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    (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google, along with TPG Rise Climate and other investors, is backing clean energy developer Intersect Power as part more than $800 million funding round, the company said on ...

  8. Billion - Wikipedia

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    1000 million Mark Notgeld banknote (1923) of Frankfurt am Main. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word billion was formed in the 16th century (from million and the prefix bi-, "two"), meaning the second power of a million (1,000,000 2 = 10 12). This long scale definition was similarly applied to trillion, quadrillion and so on ...

  9. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    I.e., if a number x is too large for a representation () the power tower can be made one higher, replacing x by log 10 x, or find x from the lower-tower representation of the log 10 of the whole number. If the power tower would contain one or more numbers different from 10, the two approaches would lead to different results, corresponding to ...