million, billion, trillion... then what?

[qfrontier]

What comes after trillion? Then after that...?

[Adam]

Well, if you wish to use the proper terms, you must inlcude:
- million = one thousand times one thousand.
- milliard = one thousand times one million.
- billion = one million times one million.

However, since US terms have flooded the globe in the last 50 years or so, everyone instead uses "billion" now in place of "milliard".

[James R]

million = 10⁶
billion = 10⁹
trillion = 10¹²
quadrillion = 10¹⁵
quintillion = 10¹⁸
hexillion = 10²¹
heptillion = 10²⁴
octillion = 10²⁷
nonillion = 10³⁰
decillion = 10³³
unodecillion = 10³⁶
duodecillion = 10³⁹
etc.

[BatM]

Originally posted by James R
million = 10⁶
billion = 10⁹
trillion = 10¹²
quadrillion = 10¹⁵
quintillion = 10¹⁸
hexillion = 10²¹
heptillion = 10²⁴
octillion = 10²⁷
nonillion = 10³⁰
decillion = 10³³
unodecillion = 10³⁶
duodecillion = 10³⁹
etc.

Google...?

[overdoze]

You're thinking of "googol": 10¹⁰⁰
googolplex: 10^googol

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/g/googol.htm

[Antimode]

Just as a curiosity in response to OD's post;

In Swedish, "Miljard" (milliard) comes after "Miljon" (million).

[Saith]

Here's a site that shows you numbers in pennies. Each link 1-18 shows you what a certain amount of pennies looks like, increasing in numbers as you go up. And also has links to some other sites.

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/nineteen.asp

[Gifted]

Someone bothered to figure out what a billion pennies look like?

[Gifted]

OH, say, how about this one:
one
deci/deca
centi/hecta
milli/kilo
??

[overdoze]

originally posted by Gifted
OH, say, how about this one:
one
deci/deca
centi/hecta
milli/kilo
??

micro/mega
nano/giga
pico/tera
femto/peta
atto/exa
zepto/zetta
yocto/yotta

Any questions?

Actually, I've often wondered how the various prefixes came about, and why some appear to match up nicely (e.g. yocto/yotta) while others seem totally mismatched (e.g. atto/exa). Leave it to the Europeans to come up with some hair-raising name scheme.

[Gifted]

I think they're Latin, but thanks!

[Walker]

If you were to encode the English alphabetjust by substituting each letter with another, there would be seventeen septillian different possible combinations. Pretty crazy!

[Stryder]

Actually one Billion is a disputed sum.

It seems most of the world has one Billion as:

1,000,000,000,000

But I think (correct me If I'm wrong) America has it down as:

1,000,000,000

Thats why when I saw $50 Billion worth of bonds it wasn't worth any more than £35 Thousand Million's (which is are also called Billion's)

So an English Billionaire is actually richer than his American counterpart even if they have the same number of differnt billions.

[Gifted]

I think you're correct

1-one
1,000-one thousand
1,000,000-one million
1,000,000,000-one billion

[Phrenetic]

does this mean that "trillion" doesn't actually exist?

[Gifted]

At billion, it starts up a prefix thing.
1,000,000,000-billion
1,000,000,000,000-trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000-quadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000-quintillion

and it goes from there most of the way.

a google, 1 times 10 to the 100th, was named by a mathmatician's three(or somewhere around there)-year-old, when asked about "what to call a 1 with 100 zeroes behind it.

[Agesilaus]

Originally posted by Gifted
[a google, 1 times 10 to the 100th, was named by a mathmatician's three(or somewhere around there)-year-old, when asked about "what to call a 1 with 100 zeroes behind it. [/B]

Don't neglect the googleplex which is a (google)**google a number so large that it cannot be written down.

[Gifted]

1x10 to the 100x10 to the 100th?

[Agesilaus]

Hmm actually I mistated it, I just checked and it is ((10)^10)^100 not (10^100)^(10^100). But irregardless it is supposed to be larger than the number of atoms in the universe and thus it is unwritable in long form base ten.

[Pollux V]

If the number were written out it might extend from one end of the universe to the other. Pretty trippy, huh?