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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. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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   For example, class 5 is defined to include numbers between 10 10 10 10 6 and 10 10 10 10 10 6, which are numbers where X becomes humanly indistinguishable from X 2 (taking iterated logarithms of such X yields indistinguishibility firstly between log(X) and 2log(X), secondly between log(log(X)) and 1+log(log(X)), and finally an extremely long ...

4. Googol - Wikipedia

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   Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version A googol is the large number 10 100. In ... A googol is the large number 10 100. In decimal notation, ...

5. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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   Words with the suffix-illion (e.g., zillion, gazillion, bazillion, jillion, bajillion, squillion, and others) are often used as informal names for unspecified large numbers by analogy to names of large numbers such as million (10 6), billion (10 9) and trillion (10 12).

6. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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   A number 1 followed by 1 googol zeros. Carl Sagan has estimated that 1 googolplex, fully written out, would not fit in the observable universe because of its size, while also noting that one could also write the number as 10 10 100. Larger than 10 10 100 (One googolplex; 10 googol; short scale: googolplex; long scale: googolplex)

7. 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 ...