2001

In 1979, the Chinese government introduced a policy requiring couples from China’s ethnic Han majority to limit themselves to one child. The official start of implementation came in 1980, with an open letter issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

The laws called “The One-Child Policy” were introduced in 1979 because the Chinese government were worried that their population was growing too fast. Some children in China disliked the rule because they said it put pressure on the one child in each family to do well.

China’s population is expected to peak in 4 years at 1.4 billion, falling to 732 million in 2100. Spain’s population is projected to have peaked in 2019 at 43 million and is expected to fall to 22 million by 2100.

When is China’s population predicted to peak? 2033 with 1.51 billion.

Table 1: Selected Demographic Indicators: Census of India 2001

100 crores

200 cr

A trillion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English.

These include 1 arab (equal to 100 crore or 1 billion), 1 kharab (equal to 100 arab or 100 billion), 1 nil (sometimes incorrectly transliterated as neel; equal to 100 kharab or 10 trillion), 1 padma (equal to 100 nil or 1 quadrillion), 1 shankh (equal to 100 padma or 100 quadrillion), and 1 mahashankh (equal to 100 …

1. Converting the Units Manually

one thousand thousand

After a billion, of course, is trillion. Then comes quadrillion, quintrillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, and decillion.

There is no such number as a ‘bajillion,’ so it is not a real number. People say ‘bajillion’ to take the place of a real number when they are…

It might seem like there are a gazillion ants at your family picnic, but hopefully you packed some bug repellent. Like zillion and jillion, gazillion is a made-up word meaning “a whole bunch” that’s modeled after actual numbers such as million and billion.

A very large, indefinite number. (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of).

A jillion is an enormous number of something. The word is modeled on actual numbers like million and billion, so it almost sounds like a real quantity. But like zillion, jillion is imprecise. Its origin is vague too, described as an “arbitrary coinage” first used around 1940.

We can say that zillion and jillion are roughly in the same class in terms of vastness. Beyond these lie the more ginormous bazillion and bajillion. Beyond even these are the incomprehensible gazillion and gajillion [4] .

Prof Hugh Woodin, University of California, USA – “One of the largest numbers we have a name for is a googol, and it’s one followed by a hundred zeroes. A hundred zeroes is a lot because each zero represents another factor of 10.”

Almost inevitably, at this point someone proffers an even bigger number, “googolplex.” It is true that the word “googolplex” was coined to mean a one followed by a googol zeros. It’s way bigger than a measly googol! True enough, but there is nothing as large as infinity either: infinity is not a number.