Hey peoplz, I have asked at least 7 people now what comes after a Trillion, and no one knows. So I figured where else to go now but to the brightest and best minds today. (only slight sarcasm there Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ) Thanks
Most (well, a lot) of people can make it up through quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion and septillion. After that, it still follows the same pattern: octillion nonillion decillion undecillion dodecillion, tredecillion quattuordecillion quindecillion sexdecillion septendecillion octodecillion novemdecillion vigintillion unvigintillion dovigintillion trevigintillion quattuorvigintillion quinvigintillion sexvigintillion septenvigintillion octovigintillion novemvigintillion trigintillion untrigintillion dotrigintillion tretrigintillion quattuortrigintillion quintrigintillion sextrigintillion septentrigintillion octotrigintillion novemtrigintillion If you want to go WAY out there, then use a googol which is 1 followed by 100 zeros. And the largest that anyone has bothered to define (as far as I know) is a googolplex - which is a 1 followed by a googol of zeros. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The name was. The mathematician was trying to make a large number, so he asked his 5 year old son. Apparently.
Yes, Leo - that's true. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! It was named (the word made up) by the nine-year-old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner.
What I don't understand is why does it take a Mathematician (Edward Kasner) to define or name (googol) 10^100? People who use numbers this high (scientists, engineers, etc) don't refer to them by names.
Only in the natural numbers. What's the first number after a trillion in the reals? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
There's a whole thread on this subject over under Math and Physics. It goes dormant for about ten months and then somebody discovers it and gets it going for the rest of the year. It's really only economists who need these words. They don't want to refer to a ten to the fourteenth dollar economy, they want to call it a hundred trillion dollars. Once "billion" was coined and the model was made clear, it was just compulsive doodlers who filled out the whole series. Nobody really uses those words except maybe kids who want to know how many miles there are in a light-year. (I'll leave that calculation to the readers. c=186,000 mi/sec.) There is still disagreement over some of the terms. I haven't bothered to look them up in the OED but sexillion vies with sextillion and I occasionally see novillion instead of nonillion. The actual derivation of the scientific modern Latin words is a little shaky and leaves room for ambiguity. I hope everybody knows that in most of the world 1,000,000,000 is one thousand million and a billion is what the Americans and French call a trillion. It does make more sense that way if you count the zeros. It just gets pretty cumbersome in languages like Spanish where you have grammar to contend with and $600,000,000,000 is "seis cientos mil millones de dolares." Yes, the Brits have grudgingly adopted our definition of billion because it's too confusing to hear people like Bill Gates referred to as billionaires even though they're a zero or two short in their paradigm.
Thanks peoplz. So if I am to understand you light, it's a Quadrillion. Thanks. I shouldn't ever have to know what comes after that. I hope.
Yes, that's correct. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I just tossed in the others for a bit of trivia.
A googolplex is absurdly, unrealistically, supermetaphysically ...big, even when compared to a googol. A googol is greater than the (estimated) number of atoms in the universe. How much processing power? To write all the digits of a googol .. example 4 ghz microprosessor -- assumming writing one digit /cycle (I know it takes more cycles), I calculated it would take a computer (roughly): 79274479959411466260781329274480000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 YEARS or 7.9e+82 YEARS -- which is also GREATER than the estimated number of atoms in the universe! (I think one source had estimated 1x10^70)
What if it was done through Boinc by millions of users? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
