novemdecillion
English
Etymology
From Latin novemdecim, nineteen.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪljən
Numeral
novemdecillion
- (US; modern British & Australian, short scale, rare) 1060.
- 1962, Jerry D. Lewis, Crusade against crime, Random House, page 314
- It is one chance in a novemdecillion. For those who like to be precise, that exact statistic is one chance in 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,676,069,604,401,795,301,376.
- 2010, SB Seymore, “Rethinking Novelty in Patent Law”, in Duke Law Journal:
- For an extreme example, see US Patent No. 5,422,351 (filed June 21, 1991). This particular patent includes a structural formula in claim 1 that encompasses at least one novemdecillion (10r[sic], or one followed by sixty zeroes) chemical compounds
- 1998, Sean O'Shea, Meryl A. Walker, The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story, →ISBN, page 66
- It has the shape of a disk, and is ten to the fifty-ninth power yojanas in circumference, a number called a novemdecillion, and is 1,600,000 yojanas deep.
- 2001, John Flanagan, How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 15 July 2001
- Go up to 60 zeros -- that's a novemdecillion -- and you can measure the volume of the galaxy in cubic inches [...].
- 2008 December 22, Steven Hanke, “The Printing Press”, in Forbes:
- The index tells us that Zimbabwe's inflation rate recently peaked at 80 billion percent a month. That means around 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent a year—or 65 followed by 107 zeros.
- 2011, Sarah Harding, Niguma, Lady of Illusion, page 286
- grangs med, literally “without count,” is also said to indicate the number ten to the fiftieth or sixtieth power (novemdecillion). Still less than a googol!
- 1962, Jerry D. Lewis, Crusade against crime, Random House, page 314
- (dated British & Australian, long scale, rare) 10114.
- A very large number
- 2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications
- ‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’.
- 2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)
- ‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’.
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- ‘The odds that one of the Cowboys linebacking corps reads this blog is one in... oh, let’s use a really big number... a novemdecillion’.
- 2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications
Translations
1060
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See also
- (short and long scale) Previous: octodecillion. Next: vigintillion.