large numbers
Figures with commas
Large numbers are quantities too big to easily comprehend or count—millions, billions, trillions, and beyond.
The term often signals imprecision or awe rather than exactness: Large numbers of protesters filled the streets.
In mathematics, large numbers have formal study, exploring concepts like googol (10^100) and Graham's number.
The law of large numbers is a statistical principle about probability converging over many trials.
- billionsThousands of millions
- googolTen to the hundredth
- orders of magnitudeExponential scale differences
- trillionsThousands of billions
- multitudeVery large number
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- notationnotation, musical notation, score, sheet music, tablature
- ArchimedesArchimedes screw, eureka, eureka moment, buoyancy, hydrostatics
large numbersfew
Small in number
trace amounts · handful · scarcity · a handful · smattering
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