Orders of Magnitude (numbers) - 105

105

(100000; one hundred thousand or a lakh)

  • Demography: The population of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was 100,982 in 2009.
  • BioMed — Strands of hair on a head: The average human head has about 100,000–150,000 strands of hair
  • Literature: approximately 100,000 verses (shlokas) in the Mahabharata
  • Mathematics: 180,000 – The approximate number of entries in The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences as of November 2010
  • Language: 267,000 words in James Joyce's Ulysses
  • Language — English words: The New Oxford Dictionary of English contains about 360,000 definitions for English words
  • Genocide: 300,000 people killed in the Rape of Nanking
  • Literature: 564,000 words in War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Literature: 930,000 words in the King James Version of the Bible


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