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70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - This number, 70 sextillion, was recently given by Australian astronomers as the number of stars visible from Earth by Telescope. It could also be called 70 million trillion or 70 billion billion.

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BMW 3-Series (1192 words)
	The early E21 was loved for good handling and a modern dashboard with a driver-oriented center console (this would be a trademark for BMW's interior in the following 20 years).
	The major difference was a much modernized shape and upgraded build quality, both were necessary to face the challenge of the forthcoming Mercedes 190E.
	In the engine side, the 316i received a new 102hp 1.6-litre engine; the 318i continued to use the 113hp M40; 320i and 325i had their straight-6 upgraded to 24 valves, producing 150hp and 192hp respectively.

Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2277 words)
	Mathematics - Poker: The odds of being dealt two pair in poker are 20 to 1 against, for a probability of 0.048 (4.8%).
	−1, and as such is the largest number which can fit into a signed (two's complement) 32-bit integer on a computer, thus marking the upper computational limit of a 32-bit CPU such as Intel's Pentium-class computer chips.
	− 1 is a 9,808,358-digit Mersenne prime; the largest known prime as of September 2006.

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