Orders of Magnitude (numbers) - 108

108

(100000000; long and short scales: one hundred million)

  • Demography: The population of the Indian state of Bihar was 103,804,637 in 2007.
  • Info — Books: The British Library claims that it holds over 150 million items. The Library of Congress claims that it holds approximately 148 million items. See The Gutenberg Galaxy
  • Info — Web sites: As of November 2011, the Netcraft web survey estimates that there are 525,998,433 (525 million) distinct websites.
  • Mathematics: More than 215,000,000 mathematical constants are collected on the Plouffe's Inverter as of 2010
  • Mathematics: 275,305,224 is the number of 5x5 normal magic squares, not counting rotations and reflections. This result was found in 1973 by Richard Schroeppel.
  • Mathematics: 358,833,097 stellations of the rhombic triacontahedron
  • Astronomy — Cataloged stars: The Guide Star Catalog II has entries on 998,402,801 distinct astronomical objects

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