Help my Maths. What are the other "illions"? Millions, Billions, Trillions, the

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   Lady_Eposted 15 years ago

   Help my Maths. What are the other "illions"?  Millions, Billions, Trillions, then What?

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   nancy_30posted 15 years ago

   After trillion comes quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion, quattuordecillion, quindecillion, sexdecillion, septendecillion, octodecillion, novemdecillion, vigintillion and centillion

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   Lady_Eposted 15 years ago

   Lol Nancy. This tickled me, but then I read it again and thought you could be right. Didn't know there were so many of them. Thanks for answering.

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   Obscurely Diverseposted 15 years ago

   Who needs all the extra forms of 'illions' when you can go all the way with the term 'googolplex'... 
   A googolplex is "ten raised to the power of one googol"...trust me, there is a lot of zeros involved here. 
   Happy formulating...   Thankfully, I haven't had to use this type of complex math, as my current lifestyle doesn't call for it. 

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   drbjposted 15 years ago

   Lady E - Take the easy way out. Instead of remembering all those different "illions", just do as I do and use the word, gazillion.
   It works for me.

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   Frosty Meadowposted 15 years ago

   We all probably need to learn to go beyond trillion...The national debt will be there before we all know it!!   :-)

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   L3B0posted 15 years ago

   Gazillionfillionzillion ....I think thats it

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   Jeff Berndtposted 15 years ago

   Reminds me of a joke:
   
   Don Rumsfeld walks into the Oval office to report on the war on terrorism. As part of the report, he mentions that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq. W replies,
   "Oh, that's terrible! How'm I gonna 'splain that to th' 'Merican people!? How're we gonna replace 'em? Are we gonna hafta reinstate th' draft?.....An' exactly how many is a Brazilian, anyway?"

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   travel_man1971posted 15 years ago

   Should I add new -illions- like quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) or five sets of 3 zeros, next will be quintellion (if I'm not mistaken). Mostly, Math terms have Greek word affixes or prefixes (because of Phytagoras and other ancient mathematicians from Greece or Europe).  Please follow this link:
   
   http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/numbers/greek/index.htm

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    roboaviposted 14 years ago

    According to US norms
    
    10^6=million
    10^9=billion
    10^12=trillion
    10^15=quadrillion
    10^18=quintillion
    10^21=sextillion
    10^24=septillion
    10^27=octillion
    10^30=nonillion
    10^33=decillion
    10^36=undecillion
    10^39=duodecillion
    10^42=tredecillion
    10^45=quattordecillion
    10^48=quindecillion
    10^51=sexdecillion
    10^54=septemdecillion
    10^57=octodecillion
    10^60=novemdecillion
    10^63=vigintillion

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    EmpressFelicityposted 14 years ago

    Look up the table near the top of this page:
    
    http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html
    
    The American numbering system seems to be the one that gets used most often.

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