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We change the bit in front of the -illion every time we add three more zeroes. The prefixes are Greek (bi means 2, tri means three, quadra = 4, octa = 8, and so on).
This naming convention is pretty good for common everyday numbers. When scientists want to talk about big numbers they just use the shorthand: we say "ten to the power of eighty" which means 1080.
There are two other very big numbers. One is called by the funny name Googol. A Googol is 10100. Then there is the Googolplex which is 101 Googol!!
Originally posted by roswell1
cool,
just one more thing, what happens when you run out of -illions?
Originally posted by MajorMalfunction
Except for good ol' Googol. And Googolplex.
Boy I wish I had a googolplex dollars right about now. Sigh.