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  2. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    This section illustrates several systems for naming large numbers, and shows how they can be extended past vigintillion . Traditional British usage assigned new names for each power of one million (the long scale ): 1,000,000 = 1 million; 1,000,0002 = 1 billion; 1,000,0003 = 1 trillion; and so on. It was adapted from French usage, and is ...

  3. Billion - Wikipedia

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    Billion. Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power ), as defined on the short scale. This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in ...

  4. World population milestones - Wikipedia

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    seven billion in 2011. eight billion in 2023. [3] [4] Old estimates put the global population at 9 billion by 2037–2046, 14 years after 8 billion, and 10 billion by 2054–2071, 17 years after 9 billion; however these milestones are likely to be reached far sooner. [5] [needs update] Projected figures vary depending on underlying statistical ...

  5. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    (1 000 000 000; 1000 3; short scale: one billion; long scale: one thousand million, or one milliard) ISO: giga-(G) Transportation – Cars: As of 2018, there are approximately 1.4 billion cars in the world, corresponding to around 18% of the human population. Demographics – India 1,420,000,000 – approximate population of India in 2023.

  6. List of population milestones by country - Wikipedia

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    100 million milestone India ... 900 million 1974 1992 2114 (est.) 1 billion 1981 1997 2129 (est.) 1.1 billion 1988 2002 - 1.2 billion 1995 2008 - 1.3 billion

  7. World population - Wikipedia

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    Africa is the second most populated continent, with around 1.34 billion people, or 17% of the world's population. Europe's 747 million people make up 10% of the world's population as of 2020, while the Latin American and Caribbean regions are home to around 653 million (8%).

  8. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Power of 10. Visualisation of powers of 10 from one to 1 billion. 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:

  9. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, the current Big Bang model suggests that the universe is 13.8 billion years (4.355 × 10 17 seconds) old, and that the observable universe is 93 billion light years across (8.8 × 10 26 metres), and contains about 5 × 10 22 stars, organized into around 125 billion (1.25 × 10 11) galaxies, according to Hubble Space Telescope ...