Or, put in other words, Ten trillion guys would each owe one dollar.
Yeah, of course.
Maybe you should googol it.
Here’s an example I use in a computer class I teach to help people get their minds around really big numbers:
Start with 1 second.
1,000 seconds is about 16-2/3 minutes.
1,000,000 seconds is about 11-1/2 days.
1,000,000,000 seconds is about 32 years.
That would be “ten duotrigintillion”.
Another way of looking at how much a billion dollars is. A billion dollars in $100 bills would weigh about eleven tons.
or ten long tons.
Or 10,000 kg.
Using the American system, here’s how it works
1: one
10: ten
100: one hundred
1,000: one thousand
10,000: ten thousand
100,000: one hundred thousand
1,000,000: one million
10,000,000: ten million
100,000,000: one hundred million
1,000,000,000: one billion
And so on and so forth. Pulling prefixes out of my ass, I’m pretty sure the next factors of 1,000 are: trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, and nonillion.
A one with a hundred zeroes after it is, as has been referenced in this thread, a googol.
I have yet to see “quintillion”, “sextillion”, etc. outside of lists of such names (I may have seen “quadrillion” a few times; I’m not sure). People use 10^18 and the like.
Here’s one from the news yesterday:
And another one from the news.
Seems like it’s used a lot in cases involving DNA.
Thanks a lot; now I can’t say I’ve never seen it.
As it happens, I’m a biologist who deals with DNA and such. None of my colleagues use such terms.
I imagine they would if they were on the stand, though. 
“1 in 2.7 x 10^18” just doesn’t quite translate as well to juries, I’d imagine.
I’d say we’re not just moving towards it, we’ve reached it. As far as I know all the mainstream British media use “billion” to mean “a thousand million”.
Edit: I’m sad to note that I missed out on marking my 1 billion second birthday. (31 years, 8 months, 8 days and about an hour and three quarters, it seems, although that obviously depends on how the months pan out exactly)
Wait so what are a zillion and a bazillion?
If you multiply them together you get a zillion bazillion. So if you divide by one you get the other.
Isn’t math pretty?
I find it pleasing that one billion seconds is a bit over 31.5 years, while one year is a bit over 31.5 million seconds.
“Milliard”
An Gadaí said:
Those are fanciful terms used to indicate “a lot”. They have no actual specific amount. Bazillion is taken to mean more than zillion, because you added a prefix.
I speculate that bazillion is a morphing of zillion to include the “b” sound you get with billion. But it could be that zillion is a shortened corruption of bazillion. Whatever, they’re fictional anyway, so it hardly matters.
**blindboyard ** said:
“That’s just goofy!” Clearly, the proper ending for really large numbers is “illion” and not “illiard”.