The Ultimate Orders of magnitude (numbers) Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference

Lottery: The odds of winning the Grand Prize (matching all 6 numbers) in the US Powerball Multistate Lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as at 2003, are 120,526,770 to 1 against, for a probability of 8 × 10^-9.
Lottery: The odds of winning the Jackpot (matching the 6 main numbers) in the UK National Lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as at 2003, are 13,983,816 to 1 against, for a probability of 7 × 10^-8.

10^-6 or 0.000 001 or one millionth

Poker: The odds of being dealt a royal flush in poker are 649,739 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.5 × 10^-6
Poker: The odds of being dealt a straight flush (other than a royal flush) in poker are 72,192 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.4 × 10^-5
Poker: The odds of being dealt a four of a kind in poker are 4,164 to 1 against, for a probability of 2.4 × 10^-4

10^-3 or 0.001 or one thousandth

Poker: The odds of being dealt a full house in poker are 693 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.4 × 10^-3
Poker: The odds of being dealt a flush in poker are 508 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.9 × 10^-3
Poker: The odds of being dealt a straight in poker are 254 to 1 against, for a probability of 4 × 10^-3
α = 0.007 297 352 533(27), the fine structure constant

10^-2 or 0.01 or one hundredth

HIV: About 1.2% of all 15-49 year-old humans were infected with HIV at the end of 2001
Lottery: The odds of winning any prize in the UK National Lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as at 2003, are 54 to 1 against, for a probability of about 0.018 (1.8%)
Poker: The odds of being dealt a three of a kind in poker are 46 to 1 against, for a probability of 0.021 (2.1%)
Lottery: The odds of winning any prize in the US Powerball Multistate Lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as at 2003, are 36.06 to 1 against, for a probability of 0.028 (2.8%)
Poker: The odds of being dealt two pair in poker are 20 to 1 against, for a probability of 0.048 (4.8%).

10^-1 or 0.1 or one tenth

Poker: The odds of being dealt only one pair in poker are about 5 to 2 against (2.37 to 1), for a probability of 0.42 (42%).
Poker: The odds of being dealt no pair in poker are nearly 1 to 2, for a probability of about 0.5 (50%)

10⁰ or 1 or one

φ ≈ 1.618034, the golden ratio
e ≈ 2.718281828, the base of the natural logarithm
π ≈ 3.141592, the ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference
7 ± 2, in cognitive science, George A. Miller's estimate of the number of objects that can be simultaneously thought of by the human mind
nine planets in the solar system

10¹ or 10 or ten

there are 10 fingers on a pair of human hands
In Olympic basketball, the roster limit for a team is 12 (and they are limited to wearing numbers 4 through 15).
there are 26 letters in the Latin alphabet
In NCAA basketball, players are not to wear digits above 5, and they are limited to one or two digits, making 42 distinct combinations (although 01, 02, 03, 04, and 05 typically aren't used). Since the roster limit is typically around 12, this doesn't present that much of a problem.

10² or 100 or hundred

In North American professional sports, players typically wear uniform numbers from 1 to 99. In some sports, 0 and 00 are also allowed, making 101 different combinations.
There are 100 Senators in the United States Senate.
There are 128 characters in the ASCII character set.
There were 191 member states of the United Nations as of 2003.
In Fahrenheit, the ignition temperature of paper. Therefore, Ray Bradbury titled his dystopian novel about book burnings Fahrenheit 451.

10³ or 1 000 or thousand

2000-3000 letters on a typical typed page of text
the DNA of the simplest viruses has some 5000 base pairs.

10⁴ or 10 000 or ten thousand

Each neuron in the human brain is estimated to connect to 10,000 others
There are 20,000 - 40,000 distinct Chinese characters, depending on how you count them
Each human being is estimated to have 30,000 to 40,000 genes
As of July 2004, the largest number of decimal places of π that have been recited from memory - > 42000

10⁵ or 100 000 or one hundred thousand

Hairs on a head: The average human head has about 100,000-150,000 hairs
As of July 2004, there are approximately 350 000 articles in Wikipedia
English words: The New Oxford Dictionary of English claims to contain 350,000 definitions for English words
564,000 words in War and Peace
The FreeDB database holds information for around 700,000 different compact discs
267,000 words in James Joyce's Ulysses
338,200 population of the London Borough of Croydon in 1998
365,596 solutions to n-Queens Problem for n = 14

10⁶ or 1 000 000 or 1 million (both short scale and long scale)

Geographic places: The NIMA GEOnet Names Server contains approximately 3.88 million named geographical features outside the United States, with 5.34 million names. The USGS Geographic Names Information System claims to have almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features within the United States.
Species: The World Resources Institute claims that approximately 1.4 million species have been named, out of an unknown number of total species (estimates range between 2 and 100 million species).
Chess: There are 2 279 184 solutions to n-Queens Problem for n = 15
Playing cards: There are 2 598 960 different 5-card poker hands that can be dealt from a standard 52-card deck.
Web sites: as of July 2003, the Netcraft web survey estimates that there are 42 million distinct web sites
Books: The British Library claims that it holds over 150 million items. The Library of Congress claims that it holds approximately 119 million items. See Gutenberg galaxy
14,772,512 solutions to n-Queens Problem for n = 16
95,815,104 solutions to n-Queens Problem for n = 17
approx. 402,000,000 native speakers of English

10⁹ or 1 000 000 000 or 1 billion (short scale), 1 milliard (long scale)

Cataloged stars: The Guide Star Catalog II has entries on 998,402,801 distinct astronomical objects
Computational limit of a 32-bit CPU: 2 147 483 647 is equal to 2³¹-1, and as such is the largest number which can fit into a signed (two's complement) 32-bit integer on a computer, thus marking the upper computational limit of a 32-bit CPU such as Intel's Pentium-class computer chips.
Base pairs in the genome: approximately 3×10⁹ base pairs in the human genome
Living human beings: approximately 6.3×10⁹ human beings living as of mid 2003
Web pages: approximately 8 × 10⁹ web pages indexed by Google as of 2004
Observable galaxies: between 1×10¹⁰ and 8×10¹⁰ galaxies in the observable (as of 2003) Universe
Neurons in the brain: approximately 10¹¹ neurons in the human brain
Stars in our Galaxy: approximately 4 × 10¹¹ stars in the Milky Way galaxy
India - 1,065,000,000 - Approximate population of India in 2003
China - 1,300,000,000 - Approximate population of the People's Republic of China in 2004.
World population - 6,378,000,000 - Estimated total midyear population for the world in 2004.
4,294,967,296 - smallest number of the form (2^(2^n)) that does not produce a prime number when 1 is added.
4,294,967,296 - the amount of bytes in 4 gigabyte; in computation, the 32-bit computers can directly access 2³² pieces of address space, this leads directly to the 4 Gigabyte limit on main memory.
4,294,967,296 - total number of CMYK colors possible when using 8 bit integers for each color component. However, virtually unlimited colors are possible by using floats from 0 to 1 as color components, so this limit is less important than it might seem.
2,147,483,647 is a Mersenne prime and a Zsigmondy number
275,305,224 is the number of 5x5 magic squares, not counting rotations and reflections. This result was found in 1973 by Richard Schroeppel. It is the third 91768409-gonal number.

10¹² or 1 000 000 000 000 or 1 trillion (short scale), 1 billion (long scale)

Known digits of pi: As of 2002, the number of known digits of pi was 1 241 100 000 000
Cells in the human body: the human body consists of roughly 10¹⁴ cells

10¹⁵ or 1 000 000 000 000 000 or 1 quadrillion (short scale), 1 billiard (long scale)

Bacteria in the human body: there are roughly 10¹⁵ bacteria in the human body
Grains of sand: all the world's beaches put together hold roughly 2 × 10¹⁵ grains of sand

10¹⁸ or 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 or 1 quintillion (short scale), 1 trillion (long scale)

Insects: It has been estimated that the insect population of the Earth comprises roughly 10¹⁸ insects.
Rubik's Cube: There are 4.3 × 10¹⁹ different positions of a Rubik's Cube

10²¹ or 1 sextillion (short scale), 1 trilliard (long scale)

Stars: 70 sextillion, was recently given by Australian astronomers as the number of stars visible from Earth by Telescope. It could also be called 70 million trillion or 70 billion billion.
Stars in the observable universe: there are very approximately estimated to be 7 × 10²² stars in the observable universe, based on galaxy counts and star estimates: [1]
there are roughly 6.022 × 10²³ molecules in one mole of any substance (Avogadro's number)

10²⁴ or 1 septillion (short scale), 1 quadrillion (long scale)

10²⁷ or 1 octillion (short scale), 1 quadrilliard (long scale)

Atoms in the human body: the average human body contains roughly 7×10²⁷ atoms, see [2]

10³⁰ or 1 nonillion (short scale), 1 quintillion (long scale)

10³³ or 1 decillion (short scale), 1 quintilliard (long scale)

10³⁶

Larger

The Eddington-Dirac number is roughly 10⁴⁰.
About 10⁴⁷ molecules of water on Earth
Earth consists of roughly 10⁵⁰ atoms
Fundamental particles in the observable universe: various sources estimate the total number of fundamental particles in the observable universe in the range 10⁸⁰ to 10⁸⁵. However, these estimates are best regarded as guesswork.
10¹⁰⁰, a googol
Asankhyeya is equal to 100¹⁴⁰ in Ancient India
10^7,816,229, order of magnitude of largest known prime number, as of February 2005. The exact value of that record prime is 2^25,964,951 - 1. Proving prime numbers with a thousand to several tens of thousands of decimal digits, depending on special form, can be done in minutes on modern computers.
10^{80,000,000,000,000,000}, largest named number in Archimedes' Sand Reckoner
10^googol ( $10^{10^{100}}$ ), a googolplex
$10^{\,\!10^{10^{34}}}$ , order of magnitude of an upper bound that occurred in a proof of Skewes
$10^{\,\!10^{10^{1000}}}$ , order of magnitude of another upper bound in a proof of Skewes
Graham's number, probably the largest number seriously used in a mathematical proof, can be written as $f 64 (4)$ ; representation in powers of 10 would be impractical, for the definition of the number see the main article about it
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Note: To correctly interpret the last few entries, keep in mind that exponentiation is performed from right to left. For example,

$10^{\,\!10^{100}} \mbox{ means } 10^{\,\!(10^{100})}$

External links

Seth Lloyd's paper Computational capacity of the universe provides a number of interesting dimensionless quantities

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