Orders of Magnitude (numbers) - 107

107

(10000000; a crore; long and short scales: ten million)

  • Demography: The population of Haiti was 10,085,214 in 2010.
  • Mathematics: 12,988,816 is the number of domino tilings of an 8×8 checkerboard.
  • Computing: 16,777,216 different colors can be generated using the hex code system in HTML (It has been estimated that the trichromatic color vision of the human eye can only distinguish about 1,000,000 different colors.).
  • Science Fiction: In Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire, in what we call 22,500 CE there are 25,000,000 different inhabited planets in the Galactic Empire, all inhabited by humans in Asimov's "human galaxy" scenario.


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