quindecillion
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin quīndecim (“fifteen”) + -illion or quin- + decillion.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
quindecillion (plural quindecillions)
- (rare, US, modern British and Australia short scale) 1048.
- 1946: United States Department of Commerce, The United States Department of Commerce: How it serves you on land and sea and in the air, U. S. Government Printing Office (1946)
- 3 quindecillion, 657 quattuordecillion, 262 tredecillion; which is to say the figures 3,657,262 followed by 42 ciphers. Operators of the key punch machines transfer a code symbol from the Census [...].
- 1978, D. Wallechinsky, I. Wallace, A. Wallace, The People's Almanac Presents The Book of Lists, Bantam:
- One supernova, in 1054, was thought by many to herald the biblical Day of Judgment. We have reached an energy level of 10 quindecillion ergs, or 1049 ergs.
- 1946: United States Department of Commerce, The United States Department of Commerce: How it serves you on land and sea and in the air, U. S. Government Printing Office (1946)
- (rare, dated, British and Australia, long scale) 1090.
Synonyms edit
- (1048): a long scale octillion
- (1090): a short scale novemvigintillion
Translations edit
1048 — see also octillion
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1090 — see also novemvigintillion
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See also edit
- (short and long scale) Previous: quattuordecillion. Next: sexdecillion.