Orders of Magnitude (numbers) - 100

100

(1; one)

  • Demography: The population of Nonowi, an incorporated village in Nebraska, United States was one in 2010.
  • Mathematics: √2 ≈ 1.414213562373095489, the ratio of the diagonal of a square to its side length.
  • Mathematics: φ ≈ 1.618033988749895848, the golden ratio
  • Mathematics: the number system understood by most computers, the binary system, uses 2 digits: 0 and 1.
  • Mathematics: e ≈ 2.718281828459045087, the base of the natural logarithm
  • Mathematics: π ≈ 3.141592653589793238, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
  • BioMed: 7 ± 2, in cognitive science, George A. Miller's estimate of the number of objects that can be simultaneously held in human working memory
  • Astronomy: 8 planets in the Solar System


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