My 9 yr old son asked me and I hadn't a clue!
2006-12-05 00:39:05 · 22 answers · asked by Esteban 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Quadrillions. However as one of the earlier answerers pointed out the numbers mean different things in original English nomenclature. The American versions seem to be becoming standard though and there are no English billionaires - 1000,000,000,000! Nobody on Earth has ever accrued wealth anything like that. A useful link is http://g42.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BigNumbers which shows prefixes and large numbers in different languages. There is no highest number (I wouldnt say infinity is a number as such) and you can make up and name many numbers which scientists and engineers have never yet needed Like 10 to the power of 1000,001 to the power of a google. Keep your son interested in science and mathematics and he may be the next Einstein! Regards
2006-12-05 01:24:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
million = 10power6
billion = 10power9
trillion = 10power12
quadrillion = 10power15
quintillion = 10power18
hexillion = 10power21
heptillion = 10power24
octillion = 10power27
nonillion = 10power30
decillion = 10power33
unodecillion = 10power36
duodecillion = 10power39
etc etc ad infinitum.
"googol": 10 to power of 100
googolplex: 10 to power of googol!!!!
Geek Fact of the Week part 1:
For the sake of ease: 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 googol, 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.
Geek Fact of the Week part 2:
One Billion is a disputed sum. It seems most of the world classes 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". At least, that's what I remember from then few years i lived there.
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 billions). So an English billionaire - this is only in theory, as no such person exists, but never mind - is actually richer than his American counterpart... even if they have the same number of different billions.
There you go. *head explodes*
2006-12-05 00:56:01 · answer #2 · answered by Wildamberhoney 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
hey, look what i got here across! after trillion is quadrillion then quintillion then sextillion septillion octillion nonillion, decillion(we are as much as ten now), undcillion, duodecillion, tredicillion, quattuordecillion, quindecillion, sexdecillion, septendecillion, octodecillion, novemdecillion, vigintillion (20 now) additionally numbers with sixty six -one hundred twenty zeros is spoke of as an undecillion or vigintillion yet with one hundred zeros this is a googol. a nuimber with 303 zeros is spoke of as a centillion. wish i helped!
2016-12-13 03:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A googol (10 to the power of 100)
2006-12-05 00:44:31 · answer #4 · answered by leedsmikey 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A quadrillion. It is the number 1 followed by fifteen 0's
The largest in the sequance is a centillion. It has one hundred 0's after the 1.
2006-12-05 00:43:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Quadtrillion, which is followed by quintillion, then sextillion, then septillion.
The link has a table which shows the names of large numbers.
2006-12-05 00:50:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quadrillions?
2006-12-05 00:43:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
After zillion Gillion.
2006-12-05 00:46:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
quadrillion- billiard -Billiarde
- Peta- P
see http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/numbers_...
for a full chart of what comes after.
2006-12-05 02:02:37 · answer #9 · answered by hot_ice 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Quadrillion! 1,000,000,000,000,000
2006-12-05 00:46:39 · answer #10 · answered by F T 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋