The “trilliard” thread (elsewhere in GQ) got me to wondering if there are other terms for powers-of-ten quantities that I don’t know about. Here’s the list I’m aware of, with the gaps:
1 (obvious)
10 tens
100 hundreds
1,000 thousands
10,000 myriads
100,000 lakhs (borrowed from Hindi)
1,000,000 millions
10,000,000 _____
100,000,000 _____
1,000,000,000 billions
10,000,000,000 _____
etc.
Are there any standard terms, short of “hundreds of millions” and the like, for those larger quantities?