The Number System??

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i have always wonderd about numbers.

there is 100, 1000, one million, billion, trillion, quadrillion(i think)

after that, what is next? how far does it go? i know that there is a really big number called googooplex or something like that, but thats all i know.

also, on a side note, is "zillion" a real number or just something that people say?

just being curious again,

drew

[NeoStarO1]

infinity. Numbers never end.

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i know they never end, sorry, i was unclear, how far has mankind labeled them?

drew

[NeoStarO1]

Hmmm I don't know how they "labeled" them, then again how did we label blue as blue, red as red, green as green, shoes as shoes, pants as pants.

I once wrote a piece years ago and part of it was stating, how do we really know blue is really blue? maybe we all were taught wrong and blue is really red? and red is really green and black is really white.

Hard to say. I think zillion is to represent and unspeakable infinity number to mean unknown HIGH infinity number.

[super gerbil]

i think that there is some thing called pentrillion and I am pretty sure that zillion is a number

[Atomic Rooster]

From the Math Forum @Drexel:

"A googol is a 1 with a hundred zeroes behind it. We can write a googol using exponents by saying a googol is 10^100.

The biggest named number that we know is googolplex, ten to the googol power, or (10)^(10^100). That's written as a one followed by googol zeroes."

Thousand 1,000 10^3
Million 1,000,000 10^6
Billion 1,000,000,000 10^9
Trillion 1,000,000,000,000 10^12
Quadrillion 1,000,000,000,000,000 10^15
Quintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 10^18

[Heavy_Equipment]

As per TeachingTips.com/math...
In the number system followed in the United States,
a million is a thousand thousands,
a billion a thousand million,
and so on as follows, each a thousand times the one before.

Trillion
Quadrillion
Quintillion
Sextillion
Septillion
Octtillion
Nonillion
Decillion
Undecillion
Duodecillion
Tredecillion
Quattuordedillion
Quindecillion
Sexdecillion
Septendecillion
Octodecillion
*Novemdecillion
Vigintillion (10 to the 63rd power )

*EDIT
They missed novemdecillion...

source #2...yes, I'm bored

What's a gazillion then? Me mum used to use that a lot, like:

"I told you kids a gazillion times..."



Cheers
Mick

PS Me mum was not a mathematician, BTW.

[Heavy_Equipment]

Originally posted by mickwish
What's a gazillion then?

As per Dictionary.com

ga·zil·lion
Informal. An indefinitely large number

Something fishy...they say virtually the same thing for zillion.

An indeterminately huge number.

ahhh!!!

A gazillion is a zillion plus 42.

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Originally posted by Heavy_Equipment

A gazillion is a zillion plus 42.

thats exactly right! how did you know?

drew