Important Math Question
 

What comes after:

Million
Billion
Trillion
?

And after that and after that and after that.

I have always wondered how the progression of numbers goes. I can remember a time when a million was a super big number, but now even a trillion is small.

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It's based primarily on latin prefixes - see Numerical Adjectives site

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http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/large.php

Centillion is fricking huge. 10 to the 600th power. OMG people actually have thought these names up for numbers.


Million
Billion
Trillion
Quadrillion
Quintrillion
Sextillion
Septillion
Octillion
Nonillion
Decillion
Undecillion
Duodecillion
Tredecillion
Quattuordecillion
Quindecillion
Sexdecillion
Septendecillion
Octodecillion
Novemdecillion
Vigintillion
Unvigintillion
Duovigintillion
Quattuorvigintillion
Sexvigintillion
Septenvigintillion
Octovigintillion
Novemvigintillion
Trigintillion
Untrigintillion
Duotrigintillion = 10 to the 99th power

[ November 01, 2003, 03:38: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Re: Important Math Question
 

Now I'm extremely curious. Why was it so important to find this information as the thread subject mentions? If you have just come across some money in excess of 1 trillion, please don't forget us little people.

Slick.

Re: Important Math Question
 

Atrocities! Spam! i'm shocked!

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I have an excellent link on this topic that I have been looking for an excuse to post:

The Biggest Numbers in the Universe

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It is really not spam though. It is an important question because growth. Currently there are about six billion poeple on our planet. In SEIV say you have a 100 planets roughly the same size, yet you only have 51 billion in population. Over time growth will inflate that number tremendously and say by the end of a good game, 200 systems with an average of 10 planets per system, and 5 billion on each planet, that number could top a trillion easy.

So that made me wonder how high a number could go. How many earth like planets, how many galaxies would it take to reach the hights of these numbers.

What was here before the universe? Nothingness, and if so, what caused the universe, and don't relay on the big bang either. Say that never happened. What else could create a universe with centillion stars or more?

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can't create something out of nothing. logical impossibility.

that's the thing about nothing - by definition, you can't do anything with it - because there's nothing there to do anything with.

I sounded like Fyron! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ November 01, 2003, 06:36: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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I thought you were Fyron, or at least a clone of him.

Ok imagine that the universe is without end. Can you conceive of this? Actually put your mind around the concept that the universe is endless. There are those who say that the universe is not endless but I say to them, if you can keep counting on and on until infinity, then so must be the size and scale of the universe.

If I had but one single wish that I could ask of God or whomever, and know that it would be granted, it would be to have the power of Q. To be able to roam the universe from beginning to end, from day one to the Last second. To create at will any object, place, thing, etc. To be GOD.

I for one feel that time and space are linked and that Time, all time, exsists in the same instant as our universe and that even though we preceive the passage of time, it is actually us who are moving through time and not time moving around us. Each nano second of time is a new reality, and each reality has a billion or more branches that it can follow. Quantum theory I believe it is called, a concept that I first though of when I was six. Long before I saw it on tv and on Star Trek NG.

I was shocked to find that others held the same concepts and had though of the same things that I had. This revolation so to speak also enlightened me to the fact that if I can imagine it, think it up, or create it then there are 100's of other people who have also done the very same thing.

Now put that into practical thought and apply it to the make up of the known universe. If there is one hundred people out of six billion that come up with the same idea, then the possiblity does exsist that out of a billion stars, there is one or two planets like earth.

I do not believe in UFO's, the alien kind, but doe hold out hope that there is life out their, but where and how far it is we will never know because of the shier vastness of space itself.

I never put much thought into numbers until I started to learn statistical process control (SPC) and then things started to make sense to me on a level that they had not before. Sure I can not spell worth a damn, but I can figure out complex things rather simply. Jig Saw Puzzles are easy for me. I was doing 1500 size puzzles in the first grade by my self. I can see thing in great detail as if looking at them in scematic form. I love blue prints and deck lay outs of ships and such.

And over the years I have grown fond of noting the reoccuring numbers in my life. Numbers that keep presenting themselves over and over and over again, but never for the lottery. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

When you boil everything down to its core, mind over matter, its all about the numbers. Numbers are endless, and the fact that we know they exsist shows that we are atuned to something greater than ourselves. We have one of the keys to open the door to the universe and we have had it since our inspection as a race.

[ November 01, 2003, 06:59: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think it was Einstein who came up with the theory that space and time are linked. The closer you come to light speed, the slower time passed for you. However, time will still be passing at the same rate for all other people. So you could be travelling at near-light speed and experience a few seconds, while someone who wasn't moving at light speed would experience a year, or two years.

Therefore, if you are sitting still, you are moving faster through time than if you are moving. Barely, but a little bit.

The theory of space/time says that a photon of light at the instant it is released from say, a flashlight, would instantaneously also be at the farthest corner of the universe. Weird huh? But where is it if there is no end to the universe?