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various large numbers and population counts
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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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