Throughout this article, exponential or scientific notation is used. 106 could also be written as the number 1 followed by six 0s, 1 000 000; 109 could be written as 1 000 000 000, and so on. Names of numbers larger than a quadrillion are almost never used, for reasons discussed further below. It is debatable which of them should be considered real working English vocabulary and which are merely trivia, curiosities, or coinages. The following table lists those names of numbers which are found in ...

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This table illustrates several systems for naming large numbers, and shows how they can be extended past decillion. Traditional British usage assigned new names for each power of one million (the long scale). It was adapted from French usage, and is similar to the system that was documented or invented by Chuquet. Traditional American usage (which, oddly enough, was also adapted from French usage but at a later date), and modern British usage, assigns new names for each power of one thousand (the short scale.) Thus, a "billion" ...

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The names googol and googolplex were invented by Edward Kasner's nephew, Milton Sirotta, and introduced in Kasner and Newman's 1940 book, Mathematics and the Imagination, in the following passage: Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as by scientists. The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely 1 with a hundred zeroes after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefo ...

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For the game, see Billiards. In long scale usage: one billiard = 1,000,000,000,000,000 = 1015 = one short scale quadrillion. This word is not found, with the meaning of a number, in standard English dictionaries. In the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Australia, the word "billiard" has been largely replaced by either the long scale usage of "thousand bill ...

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There are some general rules relating to the usual arithmetic operations performed on very large numbers: The sum and the product of two very large numbers are both approximately equal to the larger one. Hence: A very large number raised to a very large power is approximately equal to the larger of the following two values: the first value and 10 to the power the second. For example, for very large n ...

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A crore is a unit in a traditional number system, still widely used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It was also used in Iran for many centuries until some decades ago. It is equal to 100 lakhs. An Indian crore is equal to 10 million. An Iranian crore (کرور (Korur) in Persian) is half a million. This system of measurement also introduces separators into numbers in a different place than what is common outside India. For example, 30 million (3 crore) would be written as 3,00,00,000, with commas at the thousand, lakh, and crore levels. The Mumbai unde ...

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The word "billion" and its equivalents in other languages refer to one of two different numbers, depending on whether the writer is using the long or short scale. Billion - 10^12. The original meaning, established in the 15th century, was "a million of a million" (1,000,0002, hence the name billion), or 1012 = 1 000 000 000 000. This system, known in French as the échelle longue ("long scale"), was used unti ...

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1 Esdras is a deuterocanonical book accepted by most Orthodox Christians, but rejected as apocryphal by Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. In large part it parallels the action of Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Books of Chronicles, with some sections being only translations of those books. 1 Esdras - Naming and numbering. The book now called 1 Esdras presents various problems of naming. In most editions of the Septuagint, the book is titled in Greek: Εσδρας Α′ (in Latin: Esdrae I) and is placed before the ...

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The "Hundredth Monkey" is the name for a supposed phenomenon in which a particular learned behaviour spread instantaneously from one group of animals, once a critical number was reached, to all related animals in the region or perhaps throughout the world. Largely due to popularisation of this story, the "Hundredth Monkey" phenomenon is now thought by many to occur in human populations with respect to ideas and beliefs in general even thoug ...

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Avadana is the name given to a type of Buddhist romance literature represented by a large number of Sanskrit (Nepalese) collections, of which the chief are the Avadanasataka (Century of Legends), and the Divyavadana (The Heavenly Legend). Though of later date than most of the canonical Buddhist books, they are held in veneration by the orthodox, and occupy much the same position with regard to Bu

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See text. Chats are a group of small Old World insectivorous birds formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae. This name is normally applied to the robust ground feeding species found in Europe and Asia in the subfamily Saxicolini. They come from a large number of genera. Most northern species are strong migrants. Species are: Family: Muscicapidae Subfamily: Saxicolini Bluethroat, Luscinia svecica Siberian Rubythroat, Lusc ...

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Combinatorial processes rapidly generate even larger numbers. The factorial function, which defines the number of permutations on a set of fixed objects, grows very rapidly with the number of objects. Stirling's formula gives a precise asymptotic expression for this rate of growth. Combinatorial processes generate very large numbers in statistical mechanics. These numbers are so large that they a ...

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See text Nettle (Urtica) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae, mostly perennial herbs but some are annual and a few are shrubby. The most prominent member of the genus is the Stinging nettle Urtica dioica, native to Europe, Asia, and North America. The genus also contains a number of other species with similar properties, listed below. However, a large number of species names that will be encountered in this genus in the older literature (about 100 species have been described) are now recognised as synonyms of Urtica dioica. Some of t ...

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Bukhori, also known as Bukharic or Bukharan, is an Indo-Iranian language. A more descriptive name for the language might be Judæo-Tajiki Persian or Judæo-Tajik. It is the primary traditional language of the Bukharan Jews. Bukhori is based on a substrate of classical Persian, with a large number of Hebrew loanwords, as well as smaller numbers of loanwords from other surrounding languages, including Uzbek and Russian. Despite its long history, it still has a great deal of mutual intelligibility wi ...

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Westminster is a city located in Orange County, California. It was founded in 1870 by Rev. Lemuel Webber as a Presbyterian temperance colony. Its name is taken from the Westminster Assembly of 1643, which laid out the basic tenets of the Presbyterian faith. For several years of its early history, its farmers refused to grow grapes because they associated grapes with alcohol. Westminster was incorporated in 1957, at which time it had 10,755 residents. A large number of Vietnamese refugees came to the city in the 1980s, settling largely in an area now officially named Little Saigon. As ...

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A high caste in Tamil Nadu. The people belonging to the caste suffix their names with 'Pillai'. Eg: The name Thangiah becomes Thangiah Pillai. The people of the caste are traditionally landlords or clerks. A large number migrated to Kerala for performing clerical work for the King of Travancore and later to Burma during the British rule. The vellala strong holds in Tamil Nadu are Tirunalvelli and Tanjore. Vellalas are predominantly Sivates and are vegitarians. Some vellalas have converted to c ...

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Walhalla is a small town in Victoria, Australia, founded as a gold-mining community in the late 19th century and at its peak home to around 3000 residents. The town has a 2005 population of around 20 permanent residents, though it attracts large numbers of tourists and is a major focus of the regional tourism industry. The town's name is taken from an early gold mine in the area, named for the (German spelling of) the Valhalla from Norse legend. Walhalla Victoria - Geography. Walhalla is located in i ...

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The Know-Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1850s. It grew up as a popular reaction to the large numbers of immigrants—mostly Irish Roman Catholics—entering the United States starting in the late 1840s, and was characterized by calls for a number of measures to maintain the United States as a nation of Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The official name of the movement was the American Party. A myth developed that the name "Know-Nothing" was a political epithet used by the party's opponents, an ...

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Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Athapascan or Athapaskan) is the name of a large group of distantly related Native American peoples, also known as the Athabasca Indians or Athapaskes, located in two main Southern and Northern groups in western North America, and of their language family. The Athabaskan family is the largest family in North America in terms of number of languages and the number of speakers (the Uto-Aztecan family which extends into Mexico has many more speakers). In terms of terr ...

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