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various large numbers and population counts
k = 10^3 a thousand
mil = 10^6, a thousand thousand
bil = 10^9, a thousand thousand thousand, a thousand mil (giga)
trillion = 10^12, a thousand thousand thousand thousand, a billion mil, a thousand bill (tera, great pyramid of giza is 6 tetagrams, a tetrasecond is 31.5k years. C = ~1 terameter/hour. RAM can go up to 12TB for servers)
quadrillion = 10^15, ..., peta (2018 faster computer did 143 pentaflops)
exa = google had 5-15 exabytes in 2013 according to xkcd. 2010 global internet traffic is 21 exabytes/mo
pops:
2100 world estimate: 12bil
2046 world estimate: 9bil
2027 world estimate: 8bil
world: 7.7bil
2012 world: 7bil
1999 world: 6bil
1987 world: 5bil
1974 world: 4bil
asia: 4.5bil
1960 world: 3bil
christian: ~2.4bil
1927 world: 2bil
english speakers: 1-2 bil
china: 1.4bil
catholic: 1.3bil
africa: 1.2bil
americas: 1bil
1800 world: 1bil
protestant: 920mil
native mandarin speakers: 918mil
atheists: 200-750mil
europe: 741mil
north america: 579mil
native spanish speakers: 480mil
native english speakers: 379mil
eastern orthodox: 270mil
french daily speakers: 235mil
native bengali speakers: 228mil
native russian speakers: 154mil
russia population: 144mil
WWII deaths: ~70-85mil
current world pop growth: 83mil
native french speakers: 77mil
~recent yearly deaths: 55mil
WWI deaths: ~40mil
native polish speakers: 40mil
CA: 39mil
canada: 37mil
australia: 31 mil
TX: 29mil
shanghai: 24mil
native dutch speakers: 23mil
FL: 21mil
beijing: 21mil
NY: 19mil
2016 cardiovascular deaths: 18mil
istanbul: 15mil
northern kurdish speakers : 15mil
millionaires: world: 14 mil, us: 4.9mil, nyc: .4mil ( cities with most >$30mil NW: geneva, singapore, san jose, probably london, probably tokyo and HK). country with least: nigeria)
tokyo: 13mil
moscow: 13mil
daily greek speakers: 13mil
total holocaust deaths: ~11mil?
native czech speakers: 10mil
world incarcerated: ~9mil
london: 8.8mil
israel: 8.7mil
nyc: 8.6 mil
QC: 8.5mil
hong kong: 7.3mil
MA: 6.9mil
chennai: 6.7mil
holocaust jewish deaths: 5.7-6mil
singapore: 5.6mil
greater boston area: 4.8mil
LA 4mil
buenos aires: 3mil
chicago 2.6mil
US incarcerated pop: 2.3mil (737 people per 1 mil)
montreal: 1.78mil
china incarcerated pop: 1.5mil (118 people per 1mil)
russia incarcerated pop: 0.4-0.874mil (316-615 people per 1mil)
boston proper: 0.7mil
el salvador incarcerated pop: .3mil (~604 people per 1mil)
esperanto speakers: 62k-2mil
german incarcerated pop: 77k (94 people per 1mil)
US 2018 overdoses: 70k
cuban prison population: 57k (510 people per 1mil)
US 2017 suicides: 47k
US 2017 gun deaths incl suicide: 40k
allston (02134): 30k
2017 gun homocides: 15k
2001-09-11 deaths: 3k
esperanto native speakers: ~1k
billionaires: world: 2200, us: 607, china: ~300, russia ~100, india: ~100. (money: bezos: 113bil, gates: 107bil, bernard arnault: 106 (fashion, luxary goods), buffet: 87bil, zuck: 74bil, larry elison (oracle): 69bil, ortega (zara): 69bil, carlos slim (telecom): 60bil, mukesh ambani (indian industries): 60bil)
there are more christians than english speakers
more people live in california than australia
more people live in shanghai than speak dutch
there are more millionaires than people who live in tokyo
there are more incarcerated people than people who live in london, and more people who live in london than in israel
there are more incarcerated people in the US than people in montreal
there are more millionaires in new york city than people imprisoned in germany
probably more esperanto speakers than 2018 fatal US drug overdoses
more people live in the allston area code than died in 2017 of gun homocides
there is a similar number of esperanto native speakers and billionaires
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