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Millions of Millions

Nature volume 6, page 434 (1872)Cite this article

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WHY do not Messrs. Ranyard and Co. adopt the late Benjamin Gompertz's most convenient notation of prefixing a circle to the first significant figure, or suffixing a circle to the last significant figure having therein a digit for the number of zeros employed?

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DRACH, S. Millions of Millions. Nature 6, 434 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006434b0

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