hectomillion

Definitions

Hundred million.

rare

Examples

“First Investors, one of the junk bond emporia, managed two mutual funds: the High Yield⟳ and the Income Fund. An investment of $10,000 in a typical sample of Standard & Poor’s 500 stocks in fourth quarter 1988 would have⟳ yielded about $12,000 today, after a high of $14,500 a year ago. […] Michael Milken, the arachnid at the center of the tangled web of institutions like⟳ First Investors, will continue⟳ to enjoy⟳ the benefits of hectomillions after he gets around to serving his prison sentence.”

“Several may have⟳ the same number⟳ of hectomillions. They want⟳ to know⟳ how many hectomillions the richest and poorest among the 20 have⟳ and how big those rich and poor subgroups are. […] “Well, I’d start⟳ by labeling each mailbox with a hectomillion (1 hectomillion, 2 hectomillions, …, 100 hectomillions) and would lay⟳ them out in that order⟳,” Liane responded. […] Imagine⟳ again that each person maintains 100 buckets, one for each number⟳ of hectomillions between $100 million and $10 billion. […] If person i has M hectomillion dollars, he will make⟳ the sum over j of n[M, i, j] be 1 mod 31. […] Imagine⟳ that the total for a bucket q is 1. That means that exactly one person has q hectomillion dollars, since all other contributions will cancel⟳ out. If the total is 8, say⟳, then eight people have⟳ q hectomillion dollars.”

“Why is the word “centmillion” incorrect? / Centimillion is a word sometimes incorrectly used to mean⟳ 100 million (10⁸). But the metric prefix “centi-” means 1/100, not 100. There are ways to name⟳ this number⟳: 100 million could be called a hectomillion; in the United States, it could be called a decibillion.”

““How will we house the next hundred million Americans?[…]” —President Richard Nixon, 1969 / President Nixon didn’t live⟳ to see⟳ his questions answered, but this week the U.S. population surpassed the 300 million mark⟳. And surprisingly, given the tenor of the reaction to the last⟳ hectomillion milestone, reached in 1967, the 300 millionth American was not greeted with the same wailing and gnashing of teeth as the 200 millionth.”

“The 11 largest-populated nations, therefore, represent⟳ 61% of the world’s population and 57% of its economy. The United States and Japan are extremely wealthy; Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Pakistan are not. In fact, the U.S., in October 2006, passed a new hectomillion mark⟳! […] The first hectomillion mark⟳ was passed in 1915. The fourth hectomillion mark⟳ will be passed in 2050, or perhaps a good deal⟳ sooner than that. Moreover, the demographic mix⟳ within those hundred-millions is dramatically different today.”

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