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	Numbers in French
		The number consists of a word for the multiple of ten plus optionally the number for the unit 1-9 from the list opposite.
		Other large numbers (billion, trillion) behave the same way to million: they behave more like nouns, in that they are preceded by un or take a plural -s, and are followed by de...
		Superficially, the names of large numbers such as billion, trillion are the same in French as in English.
	www.french-linguistics.co.uk /tutorials/numbers (538 words)

	names of big numbers
		In both systems the names of the numbers are constructed with Latin prefixes attached to “-illion” (see History).
		Of course, the exact spellings of the number names differ from language to language: billiard is “Billiarde” in German, billion is “bilhão” in Portuguese, and so on.
		The ordinary way of naming this number in English, will be the often repeating of millions, of millions, of millions, of millions, of millions, of millions, of millions, of millions, (which is the denomination of the second six figures).
	www.sizes.com /numbers/big_numName.htm (2246 words)

	Language and Numerical Structures
		In fact, notice that the name of the number can be easily obtained just by arranging the names of the numbers and unit structures of the expression in the same order as they appear in the expression without paying attention to the arithmetic symbols used in the expression.
		In the previous section it was shown that the name of a number is actually the representation of a verbal numerical expression.
		A numeral is the symbolic representation of a number, therefore all the symbolic representations of verbal numerical expressions are numerals.
	www.xnumber.com /xn_verbal.htm (4257 words)

	Large Numbers at MROB
		Almost all numbers that are easy to make simple statements about (such as which of two numbers is larger) can be put into the class system.
		Class-1 numbers are those that are small enough to be perceived as a bunch of objects seen directly by the human eye.
		These number names were adopted throughout Europe during the next century (with minor spelling changes for each language), and used for both systems causing ambiguity when texts were translated.
	home.earthlink.net /~mrob/pub/math/largenum.html (3896 words)

	Names of large numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		References to names of quantities larger than a quadrillion, however, are rare, and increasingly artificial; they tend to be limited to discussions of names of numbers, or mathematical concepts.
		When a number represents a measurement rather than a count, SI prefixes can be used; one says "femtosecond", not "one quadrillionth of a second.", although often powers of ten are used instead of some of the very high and very low prefixes.
		Names of reciprocals of large numbers do not need to be listed here, because they are regularly formed by adding -th, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Names_of_large_numbers (2323 words)

	Names of large numbers (via CobWeb/3.1 vn1.cs.wustl.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		When a number represents a measurement rather than a count, SI prefixes are used; one says "femtosecond," not "one quadrillionth of a second." In some cases, specialized very large units are used, such as the astronomer's parsec and light year.
		The Names googol and googolplex were invented by Edward Kasners nephew, Milton Sirotta, and introduced in Kasner and Newmans 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.
	names-of-large-numbers.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1719 words)

	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 first number is much larger than the second, due to the larger height of the power tower, and in spite of the small numbers 1.1 (however, if these numbers are made 1 or less, that greatly changes the result).
		With extremely large numbers, the relative error may be large, yet there may still be a sense in which we want to consider the numbers as "close in magnitude".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Large_numbers (2734 words)

	Notable Properties of Specific Numbers at MROB
		The actual number of particles in the universe may be much larger — for example, it might be that most of the universe is beyond our event horizon (redshift horizon).
		The number of yellow cows was (1/6+1/7) the total number of the white herd.
		If you can accurately tell, O stranger, the total number of cattle of the Sun, including the number of cows and bulls in each color, you would not be called unskilled or ignorant of numbers, but not yet shalt thou be numbered among the wise.
	home.earthlink.net /~mrob/pub/math/numbers-14.html (2429 words)

	button large number phone - large numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Large numbers are usually number n is used Names for Large Numbers than another infinite set.
		Latin-based systems and move naming large numbers, the finite numbers is to number of objects the number.
		At Button large number phone - UTK Names may try to explain 1075 5.3 14.00 - 14.45 there are billions of is an up arrow) in 30 for a program of mine, and we agree to write John Allen.
	large-numbers.mirielthreadsandjules.com /button_large_number_phone.htm (1762 words)

	Explicit Aggregation
		All names in a routing aggregate are treated identically in routing calculation, thus reducing load at content routers.
		The number of aggregates a name belongs to is likely to be relatively small for all but the largest content providers-- which can be advertised unaggregated.
		However, the number of routing updates seen by an individual router on name addition is limited by the number of direct peers.
	www-dsg.stanford.edu /papers/contentrouting/node9.html (1265 words)

	IP Numbers, IP Names, and DNS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Ranges of IP numbers are assigned to an institution (upon request by the institution, or on the institution's behalf by its ISP) by a national clearinghouse (InterNIC).
		The ".edu" aspect of the IP name is not reflected in the IP number at all.
		There are a large number of directory and configuration files that go into supporting an institution's network and many of these files require lists of the machines that can use or are defined for a particular service.
	www.ilcso.uiuc.edu /Web/Docs/IPnumbers.html (1566 words)

	Names for Large Numbers
		The English names for large numbers are coined from the Latin names for small numbers n by adding the ending -illion suggested by the name "million." Thus billion and trillion are coined from the Latin prefixes bi- (n = 2) and tri- (n = 3), respectively.
		In the American system for naming large numbers, the name coined from the Latin number n applies to the number 10
		In science, the names of large numbers are usually avoided completely by using the appropriate SI prefixes.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/large.html (670 words)

	325,000 Names on Terrorism List
		Names from the NCTC list are provided to the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), which in turn provides names for watch lists maintained by the Transportation Security Administration and other agencies.
		The NCTC name repository began under its predecessor agency in 2003 with 75,000 names, and it continues to grow.
		Terrorism-related names and other data are sent to the NCTC under standards set by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6, signed by President Bush in September 2003, according to a senior NCTC official.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ps/325k_names_on_terror_list.htm (1151 words)

	Naming Large Numbers
		Nicolas Chuquet (1445-1488) devised a naming system for large numbers that combined a Latin-based numeric prefix with the suffix "-yllion" (later "-illion") to denote an
		Modified Chuquet System, in which the suffix "-illiard" is used to denote a number one thousand times greater than the corresponding number with the "-illion" suffix, met with limited success.
		Names for Large Numbers. The names of the multiplicative inverses of the integer powers of one thousand (1,000) are formed by adding the suffix "-th" to the number name.
	home.comcast.net /~igpl/NWS.html (245 words)

	Some Notes on Big Numbers
		Quantum computing allows a single computer to work on an immense number of possibilities at once, but there is a fundamental physical limitation on their operation that means that if they did exist, they would simply double the length of keys that could be cracked.
		However, it but scratches the surface of the integers; it does not begin, for example, to reach towards numbers like the googolplex, (which is 10^(10^100) just as the googol is 10^100) and very large numbers of that kind can indeed be meaningful to mathematicians; they are sometimes required in mathematical proofs, for example.
		However, Donald Knuth had already proposed such a scheme, with the additional improvement that new number names would come along not every time eight digits are added to the end of the number, but when the length of the number doubles, thus enabling the system to be extended to much larger numbers.
	www.quadibloc.com /math/bignum.htm (2524 words)

	Large Numbers
		But historically, a large number was whatever the prevailing culture deemed it to be an intrinsically circular definition.
		Somewhat above the googol lie numbers that present a sharp challenge to practitioners of the art of factoring: the art of breaking numbers into their prime factors, where primes are themselves divisible only by 1 and themselves.
		LARGE NUMBERS- such as the 100-digit, or googol-size, ones running across the tops of these pages - have become more accessible over time thanks to advances in computing.
	www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/largeno.html (3119 words)

	Law of Truly Large Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The law of truly large numbers says that with a large enough sample many odd coincidences are likely to happen.
		The number is actually likely to be larger, since we tend to dream about things that legitimately concern or worry us, and the data of dreams is usually vague or ambiguous, allowing a wide range of events to count as fulfilling our dreams.
		Given the fact that there are billions of people and the possible number of meaningful coincidences is millions of billions, it is inevitable that many people will experience some very weird and uncanny coincidences every day.
	www.skepdic.com /lawofnumbers.html (1394 words)

	Units: Using Numbers and Units (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Although the General Conference on Weights and Measures endorsed the European names in 1948, the American definitions seem to be gaining ground in Britain and perhaps elsewhere.
		These names are listed in on the Names for Large Numbers page.
		Since the comma often means a decimal point, the International System (SI) requires that large numbers, like the billions above, be represented as groups of three digits separated by narrow spaces, not by commas.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/numbers.html (448 words)

	U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Has 325,000 Names
		Because the same person may appear under different spellings or aliases, the true number of people is estimated to be more than 200,000, according to officials of the counter terrorism center, which was created in 2004 to be the primary U.S. terrorism intelligence agency.
		Names from the counterterrorism center list are provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Terrorist Screening Center, which in turn provides names for watch lists maintained by the Transportation Security Administration and other agencies, according to the report.
		Civil liberties advocates and privacy experts said they were troubled by the size of the database of the National Counterterrorism Center, and they said it further heightens their concerns that such government terrorism lists include the names of large numbers of innocent people, the report said.
	www.gameshout.com /news/022006/article3208.htm (292 words)

	Large Numbers
		In the U.S., the name for 10^(3N) uses a latinized prefix for N-1, so 10^9 is 1 billion, 10^12 is 1 trillion, 10^15 is 1 quadrillion, 10^18 is 1 quintillion, and so on.
		The other common practice is to assign a name with a latinized prefix for N to the number 10^(6N).
		The Moser, named for Leo Moser who is purportedly responsible for this construction, is defined as 2(zelda-gon), unarguably an unbelievably large number.
	www.sci.wsu.edu /math/faculty/hudelson/moser.html (736 words)

	Names for large numbers
		This is the most concise way and the most reproducible way to represent large numbers.
		A silly, but most amusing way, to represent large numbers is by their more or less official 'Latin' representation as is done here.
		And now another rather peculiar list: the names of the large numbers sorted by their word lengths.
	home.hetnet.nl /~vanadovv/BignumbyN.html (562 words)

	Names of Numbers
		Almost nobody would refer to that number in the prior paragraph as "three followed by twelve zeros." An American television newscaster would call it three trillion, and a British newscaster would call it three billion (there's a reason George Bernard Shaw said that "England and America are two countries separated by the same language"!).
		A sexdecillion is larger than the number of hydrogen atoms you'd have to put in a line to span the entire universe.
		This is a number so large that you couldn't even write down the number given your entire lifetime, an endless supply of paper, and all the #2 pencils you wanted.
	captioning.robson.org /reference/language/numbers.html (697 words)

	List of most popular family names - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the 1990 study, the top 200 family names accounted for over 96% of the random sample of 174,900 persons, over 500 other names accounted for the remainder.
		The number one Chinese family name was Li3 at 7.9% of the sample, followed by Wang2 at 7.4% and Zhang1 at 7.1%, the study showed that the top 19 names covered 55.6% and the top 100 names covered 87% of the sample.
		United States (Numbers in parenthesis are percentage of population with that name.) 1.
	www.questionz.net /Countries/Most_popular_family_names.html (605 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math Archives: Elementary Large Numbers
		We are a 3/4 class, studying large numbers.
		I have heard that Graham's number is the largest number with mathematical use.
		In Rowlett's site for naming large numbers, he seems to take every American prefix and bump its meaning by one to get the corresponding Greek-based prefix.
	mathforum.org /library/drmath/sets/elem_large_numbers.html (585 words)

	bigNumbers.nb
		Beyond a certain size, there are no names for large numbers, so you can create a new number and call it whatever you like.
		For calculations involving large numbers of things that may actually exist, a web site maintained by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration an excellent resource.
		An advanced student can readily explain the difference between “the largest number” and “the largest number that has a name.” When children ask, “What is the largest number?” they should be congratulated and encouraged to think of what adding 1 would do to the largest number.
	www.unl.edu /tcweb/fowler/analysesHTML/aboutBigNumbers (408 words)

	Math Trivia
		After a million, we do not agree on any of the names for large numbers.
		As you can see, Americans name their numbers based on powers of 10 that are multiples of 3, while the British name theirs based on multiples of 6.
		On the left are the symbols along with their common names.
	faculty.kutztown.edu /schaeffe/Trivia/trivia.html (125 words)

	How Large Can Numbers Get? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Numbers just get larger and larger, and never stop getting larger.
		There is no one out there who can tell you what the biggest number of all is, because if someone comes up with the "biggest" number, you can always make it bigger by just adding one.
		Very Large numbers with all its digits can be a pain to write out or to pronounce.
	educ.queensu.ca /~fmc/december2001/LargeNumbers.htm (189 words)

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