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Names of large numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Large numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Large numbers are numbers that are significantly larger than those ordinarily used in everyday life, for instance in simple counting or in monetary transactions. The term typically refers to large po...
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Large numbers have interested me almost all my life ... Googol is a class-2 number, as are the various large prime numbers used in cryptography, all of the known Perfect numbers, the Fermat numbers with known factorization, etc. All of the large physical constants like 6.02×1023 (Avogadro's number) and 1080 (the number...
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The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning (Hardcover) ... Rather than accepting that statistics is necessarily correct because it is based on the seemingly universal logic of mathematics, The Politics of Large Numbers, and other works in the same genre, are keen to show that statistics is a...
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People sometimes ask me the names of the large numbers. Here is a table. The system used in the U.S. is not as logical as that used in other countries (like Great Britain, France, and Germany). ... There are other big numbers with names. A zillion has come to mean an arbitrary or unknown large number. A googol is 10^100.
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Large numbers have a distinct appeal,a majesty if you will. In a sense that they lie at the limits of the human imagination which is why they have long proved elusive,difficult to define,and harder still to manipulate.
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