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Zillion

A generic word for a very large number. The term has no well-defined mathematical meaning. Conway and Guy (1996) define the nth zillion as 10^(3n+3) in the American system (million=10^6, billion=10^9, trillion=10^(12), ...) and 10^(6n) in the British system (million=10^6, billion=10^(12), trillion=10^(18), ...). Conway and Guy (1996) also define the words n-plex and n-minex for 10^n and 10^(-n), respectively.

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Large Number

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References

Conway, J. H. and Guy, R. K. The Book of Numbers. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 13-16, 1996.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Zillion." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Zillion.html

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