# A billion $$ how much is it really?

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**Created:** [January 28, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-billion-how-much-is-it-really/526760 "2010-01-28T14:48:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-billion-how-much-is-it-really/526760/41 "2010-01-30T03:20:19Z")

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You want bazillions, I’ll give you some bazillions!

> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> I’m pretty sure the next factors of 1,000 are: trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, and nonillion.

Followed by: decillion, undecillion, duodecillion, tredecillion, quattuordecillion, quintdecillion sexdecillion, septdecillion, octdecillion, nondecillion, and vigintillion.

Somewhat less _officially_ followed by unvigintillion, duovigintillion, trevigintillion, quattuorvigintillion, quintvigintillion, sextovigintillion, septemvigintillion, octovigintillion, novemvigintillon, and trigintillion.

And untrigintillion, and duovigintillion, TEN of the latter of which _just happens_ to be followed by exactly 100 zeros and is also colloquially called “a googol”. (100 is not divisible by three; groups of zeros come in threes, hence ten duotrigintillion).

… tretrigintillion, yadda yadda (you get the pattern)..novemtrigintillion, quadragintillion.

…unquadragintillion, duoquadragintillion, yadda yadda novemquadragintillion, quinquagintillion. That sucker has 153 zeros aftter it.

…unquinquagintillion, duoquinquagintillion, yadda yadda, novemquinquagintillion, sexagintillion.

…unsexagintillion duosexagintillion, etc etc septuagintillion. I really love the sound of that number. Septuagintillion. Something somewhere ought to be that far away or that big or that old. Septuagintillion. A 1 followed by 213 zeros.

…octoseptuagintillion, novemseptuagintillion, octogintillion.

..unoctogintillion, duooctogintillion, blah blah novemnonagintillion.

…unnonagintillion (that’s got a nice ring to it), duononagintillion, trenonagintillion, quattuornonagintillion, quintnonagintillion, sextononagintillion, septemnonagintillion \<— this is a 1 followed by 300 zeros …, octononagintillion, novemnonagintillion…

CENTILLION. 1 followed by 303 zeros. why the extra three? Why not a nice even quantity of zeros for the centillion? Because…

1000 \<— 3 zeros  
1,000,000 \<— “mi” (“one”) million. Extra 3 zeros to start off with.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-billion-how-much-is-it-really/526760/42 "2010-01-30T03:27:09Z")

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Dang. Minor correx:

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> decillion, undecillion, duodecillion, tredecillion, quattuordecillion, quintdecillion sexdecillion, septdecillion, octdecillion, nondecillion, and vigintillion

shoulda been: decillion, undecillion, duodecillion, tredecillion, quattuordecillion, quintdecillion sextodecillion, septemdecillion, octodecillion, novemdecillion, and vigintillion

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