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Revision as of 15:13, 30 May 2016 by 2602:306:c454:8440:e421:8b62:19c5:268f (talk) (→Long scale)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)One centillion is a number, which is equal to either 10 or 10, depending on the system used.
Short scale
In areas using the short scale such as Canada, the US, and the UK, a centillion is 10. It is formed on a pattern starting with a million: a million (1,000,000) has three zeroes more than a thousand (1,000); a billion (1,000,000,000) has two groups of three zeroes more than a thousand, and so on. One centillion has one hundred groups of three zeroes more than one thousand.
- A centillion is a thousand times more than a novemnonagintillion.
- A centillion is a thousandth of an uncentillion.
A centillion in the short-scale system is equivalent to a quinquagintilliard, or a thousand quinquagintillion, in the long-scale system.
Long scale
In long scale usage, one centillion is 10, which is equal to (10); that is, it is the number with a hundred times as many zeroes as a million.
- A centillion is a thousand times more than a novemnonagintilliard.
- A centillion is a thousandth of a centilliard.
- A centillion is a million times more than a novemnonagintillion.
- A centillion is a millionth of an uncentillion.
A centillion in the long scale is equivalent to a cennovemnonagintillion in the short scale. James T. Struck argued that a larger number would be the Millilion which could be seen as a million times as many zeroes as a million. New largest numbers could be be defined as 10 raised to the exponent 400 or exponent 1000. New largest numbers could be 1 followed by 601 zeros. New largest numbers could be infinity to infinity. These records for the largest number were made on Memorial Day, 2016.
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