millinillion

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

millinillion (plural millinillions)

  1. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 103003.
    • 2014, Ian Stewart, Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries:
      Recognised extensions to the standard dictionary names go up to a millinillion, 103003.
    • 2016, Patrick Faure, Anton Müller:
      When I say could, it is because we have a defensive perimeter, but now many hours could my few sextillion nanobots resist to the famished appetite of millinillions of attackers—a millinillion is of course one with three thousand zeros behind it.
    • 2017, Ian Stewart, Infinity: A Very Short Introduction, page 20:
      Suggesions for extending the named lead to millinillion, which is 103003.
    • 2024, Norbert Schwarzer, Quantum Gravity War: How Will the Nearby Unification of Physics Change the Future of Warfare, page 177:
      With such a constellation, we, which is to say our visible universe(s), are sitting on an energy bomb millinillion times more powerful in each piece of Planck volume than our whole universe could bring together.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:millinillion.

Usage notes

Some lists of number names give an alternative interpretation, 106000, the so-called long scale, which was not attested by actual use.

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