Search for a name for the number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
- March 6, 2010
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How would you express 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words? Don’t worry if you don’t know, because there doesn’t exist a word for it! The scientists in the USA and Britain are trying to persuade Le Système international d’unités, an agency in France which takes decision on the units, that are used throughout the world, to accept their proposal to use prefix hella for the number.
Hella is a slang term in the USA which means ‘a lot of’. Existing prefixes are:
10 = deca
100 = hecto
1,000 = kilo
1,000,000 = mega
1,000,000,000 = giga
1,000,000,000,000 = tera
1,000,000,000,000,000 = peta
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = exa
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = zetta
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = yotta