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Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers
This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities. Smaller than...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 10-12
One trillionth (short scale), One billionth (long scale) ISO: pico - p Math: Roughly the chances of getting heads 40 times in a row on a...   » Read the article

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(1 000 000 000 000; short scale: 1 trillion; long scale: 1 billion) ISO: tera - T BioMed - Bacteria on the human body: the surface of th...   » Read the article

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(1 000 000 000; short scale: 1 billion; long scale: 1 milliard) ISO: giga - G Comp - Computational limit of a 32-bit CPU: 2 147 483 647 ...   » Read the article

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(1 000 000 000 000 000; short scale: 1 quadrillion; long scale: 1 billiard) ISO: peta - P BioMed - Bacteria in the human body: there are...   » Read the article

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(1 000 000; 1 million) ISO: mega - M Geo/Comp - Geographic places: The NIMA GEOnet Names Server contains approximately 3.88 million name...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 1021
(1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000; see names of large numbers for naming of this and larger numbers) ISO: zetta - Z Geo - Grains of sand: a...   » Read the article

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(1 000 000 000 000 000 000; short scale: 1 quintillion; long scale: 1 trillion) ISO: exa - E BioMed - Insects: It has been estimated tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 10-2
(0.01; one hundredth) ISO: centi-c BioMed - HIV: About 1.2% of all 15–49 year-old humans were infected with HIV at the end of 2001 Mat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 10-1
(0.1; one tenth) ISO: deci - d Math - Poker: The odds of being dealt only one pair in poker are about 5 to 2 against (2.37 to 1), for a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 10-6
(0.000 001; one millionth) ISO: micro - prefix Greek letter mu Math - Poker: The odds of being dealt a royal flush in poker are 649...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 10-9
(0.000 000 001; short scale: one billionth; long scale: one milliardth) ISO: nano - n Math - Lottery: The odds of winning the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 10-3
(0.001; one thousandth) ISO: milli - m Math - Poker: The odds of being dealt a full house in poker are 693 to 1 against, for a probabili...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 101
(10; ten) ISO: deca - da BioMed: there are 10 fingers on a pair of human hands Sport: In Olympic basketball, the roster limit for a team...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 102
(100; hundred) ISO: hecto - h Sport: In North American professional sports, players typically wear uniform numbers from 1 to 99. In some...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers: Encyclopedia Ii - Orders Of Magnitude Numbers - 103
(1 000; thousand) ISO: kilo - k Lang: 2000–3000 letters on a typical typed page of text BioMed: the DNA of the simplest viruses has so...   » Read the article