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Large numbers -- OT

Posted By: Nack Ballard
Date: Tuesday, 1 June 2010, at 6:35 p.m.

In Response To: My Quintuple Whopper (Rod)

quint, sext, sept, oct, non, deci, unideci, duodeci, .... I break down from there

I memorized these from an old book entitled Language on Vacation (too much time on my hands at five years old!):

million (6 zeroes)
billion (9)
trillion (12)
quadrillion (15)
quintillion (18)
sextillion (21)
septillion (24)
octillion (27)
nonillion (30)
decillion (33)
undecillion (36 -- think it was without the "i")
duodecillion (39)
tredecillion (42)
quatuordecillion (45)
quintuordecillion (48)
sextuordecillion (51)
septuordecillion (54)
octuordecillion (57)
nondecillion (60)
vigintillion (63)
trintagintillion (93)
quadragintillion (123)
quintagintillion (153)
sextagintillion (183)
septagintillion (213)
octagintillion (243)
nonagintillion (273)
centillion (303 zeroes)

This book also mentioned that a googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes, and a googolplex is a 1 followed by a googol zeroes!

I lost my battered copy of Language on Vacation in a move long ago. It is/was a wonderful book with spectacular anagrams and all sorts of word play, including a very long one-sided phone conversation that was a palindrome (also memorized, but forgotten).

When I lived in England (age 11-13), I learned in school that billion has 12 zeros (instead of 9) and trillion 18 (instead of 12), and everything above that has 2n-6 zeros (only cuz I asked), while "milliard" and "billiard" fill in the missing 9- and 15-zero numbers. Is that system still used on "the continent" (Europe)?

Nack

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