million, billion, trillion... then what?

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  1. Fraggle Rocker

    Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    So do the people who don't use the American system call Warren Buffett a milliardaire?
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Aug 25, 2004
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  3. Dreamwalker

    Dreamwalker Whatever Valued Senior Member

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    Yes they do.

    (I have to say that the American system got me quite irritated the first time I stumbled across it and noticed that they described those amount another way.)
     
    Dreamwalker, Aug 25, 2004
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  5. yuri_395

    yuri_395 Registered Member

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    ya my dad dosen' belive that it passes the andromeda galaxy
     
    yuri_395, Feb 8, 2005
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  7. Communist Hamster

    Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    I give this thread several awards

    Award 1 : Most Uses of the number 0 in Non-Spam Messages

    Award 2: Mosts Posts by Users who just Registered but then Didn't Come Back
    (so they only have 1 post each)

    Award 3: Most resurrections.
    This thread has been ressurrected over 3 times! And every time it was ressurrected, people payed some attention to it! Now thats gotta deserve a medal of some sort. Some photoshop one up, will ya?
     
    Communist Hamster, Feb 8, 2005
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  8. Neildo

    Neildo Gone Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah, my favorite part was that there's a number so large that it cannot be written down due to not enough atoms being available in the universe to do so, heh.

    I also had to recheck the thread to see how many people fit the criteria for Award #2 and found that amusing, lol.

    - N
     
    Neildo, Feb 8, 2005
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  9. yuri_395

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    yuri_395, Feb 9, 2005
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  10. Communist Hamster

    Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    You're an alternate account of an already existing, high post SF user aren't you? You made that account just to ressurrect the thread without getting told off!
     
    Communist Hamster, Feb 9, 2005
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  11. Neildo

    Neildo Gone Registered Senior Member

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    Roflmao, too funny, heh.

    - N
     
    Neildo, Feb 9, 2005
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  12. yuri_395

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    but I didn't ressurect the thread :bugeye:
     
    yuri_395, Feb 10, 2005
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  13. night

    night Science Man Extrodinaire Registered Senior Member

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    Hey,
    Ten to the 26th = 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

    What would be the scientific name for that?
    All i have seen is
    "24 septillion quadrillion
    27 octillion 1000 quadrillion"

    would it be 500 quadrillion?

    -Night
     
    night, Sep 25, 2005
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  14. Fraggle Rocker

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    In the U.S. it's one hundred septillion.

    In most of the rest of the world it's one hundred quadrillion.

    If you had chosen 10^29, the answer would show the superiority of our way.

    In the U.S., 10^29 is one hundred octillion.

    In the countries using the other system, it's one hundred thousand quadrillion.

    Pity the Spanish-speaking peoples. "Million" and the larger figures are all nouns and have to be used grammatically correctly. For them "10^29 dollars" is "a hundred thousand quadrillions of dollars," "ciento mil cuadrillones de dólares."
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Sep 25, 2005
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  15. weed_eater_guy

    weed_eater_guy It ain't broke, don't fix it! Registered Senior Member

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    i ran this through mathematica and damn-near set my laptop on fire...

    how many zeros are in "1000000!"? It must have made hundreds of pages of numbers on my screen show up...
     
    weed_eater_guy, Sep 25, 2005
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  16. Communist Hamster

    Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. It's happened again.
     
    Communist Hamster, Sep 26, 2005
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  17. Fraggle Rocker

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    I don't even understand Weed Eater's comment. There are six zeros in 1000000 and it doesn't take any automated tools to figure it out.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Sep 26, 2005
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    jackamo, Sep 27, 2005
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    I'll eat your head, and suck all your blood out you billy goat you.
     
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  20. weed_eater_guy

    weed_eater_guy It ain't broke, don't fix it! Registered Senior Member

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    it's 1000000!, as in 1000000 factorial (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x ...... 1000000)
     
    weed_eater_guy, Sep 28, 2005
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  21. Hapsburg

    Hapsburg Hellenistic polytheist Valued Senior Member

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    quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, whatever the fuck "9" is in latein -illion, decatillion, and I forget what's next...
    but, eventually, it works its way to 'google", then something else, then "infinity", then "aleph-one".
     
    Hapsburg, Sep 28, 2005
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  22. Fraggle Rocker

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    Oh I see, sorry. Missed the exclamation point in that font. That would be a really big number all right. By inspection it's obviously greater than one thousand to the one thousandth power, which means it will have more than three thousand zeros.

    After octillion comes nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion.

    I've seen charts showing what comes next for lots more zeros, but this is what they call "Modern Latin" as opposed to "real" Latin, meaning that it's being invented on the spot. Up to duodecillion, there's a consensus among scientists and mathematicians. Beyond that the laws of Latin grammar are not unambiguous enough that there's more than one logical way to coin some of the terms. They're not in wide enough use for there to be a general agreement.

    Obviously everyone will agree that 10^303 is one centillion. But what's 10^54? I've seen both "septemdecillion" and "septdecillion," the latter of which is pretty hard to pronounce.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Sep 28, 2005
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  23. Pete

    Pete It's not rocket surgery Registered Senior Member

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    What the hell happened to my post??? I'll try again!

    It's easy to show by pairing high and low numbers that a million factorial is greater than a million to the half-millionth power, so it's at more than 3 million digits long.

    It's also obvious that it's less that a million to the millionth power, so it's less than 6 million digits long.

    As far as actual trailing zeros go, I think that it will end in exactly 249,998 zeros, as that's the number of multiples of 5 and its powers that are less than a million (ie there are 200000 multiples of 5, 40000 multiples of 25, 8000 multiples of 125, and so on).
     
    Pete, Sep 29, 2005
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