-yllion
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yllion-162-14787468
title:
-yllion
text:
-yllion is a proposal from Donald Knuth for the terminology and symbols of an alternate decimal superbase system. In it, he adapts the familiar English terms for large numbers to provide a systematic set of names for much larger numbers. In addition to providing an extended range, -yllion also dodges the long and short scale ambiguity of -illion. Knuth's digit grouping is exponential instead of linear; each division doubles the number of digits handled, whereas the familiar system only adds thre
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mathematical notation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-yllion
date created:
2003-08-27T19:16:59Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T02:56:30Z
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