An order of magnitude less than a Squillion?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_and_fictitious_numbers

Words ending in the sound "-illion", such as zillion,[2] jillion,[3] and gazillion,[4] are often used as fictitious names for an unspecified, large number by analogy to names of large numbers such as million, billion and trillion. Their size is dependent upon the context, but can typically be considered large enough to be unfathomable by the average human mind.

However, no one here at this forum has an average human mind.

Hi bobby,

But when I say "squillions" it sounds more impressive than plain old zillions.

Wikipedia wrote:

Words ending in the sound "-illion", such as zillion,[2] jillion,[3] and gazillion,[4] are often used as fictitious names for an unspecified, large number by analogy to names of large numbers such as million, billion and trillion. Their size is dependent upon the context, but can typically be considered large enough to be unfathomable by the average human mind.

These terms are often used as hyperbole or for comic effect, or in loose, unconfined conversation to present an un-guessably large number. Since these are undefined, they have no mathematical validity and no accepted order, since none is necessarily larger or smaller than any of the others.

Many similar words are used, such as ananillion,[5] bajillion,[6] bazillion,[7] dillion,[8] gadzillion,[9] gagillion,[10] gajillion,[11] godzillion,[12] gonillion,[13] grillion,[14] hojillion,[15] julillion,[16] kabillion,[17] kajillion,[18] katrillion,[19] killion,[8] robillion,[20] skillion,[21] squillion,[2] and umptillion.[22]

Last edited by quittyqat (2009-06-10 10:37:31)

An old joke . . .


"How many is a brizillion?"

"A what?"

"I just heard it on the news:
. . Two brizillion soldiers were injured."



Another oldie:

Milli-Helen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
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