octotrigintillion

From octo- (“eight”) +‎ trigintillion.

• Rhymes: -ɪljən

octotrigintillion

1. (rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10¹¹⁷.
   • 2012, Chandana Jayawardana, “Ancient Mathematical Practices in Sri Lanka: A Survey based on the Pūjāvaliya”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, volume LVII, Colombo: Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 55–56:

     The long period required for fulfilling pāramitā to attain Buddhahood is mentioned as a set of numbers as multiples whose numerical products are also given. These are given in the table below […] [Factors:] koṭi (10⁷) x padumayak (10¹¹²) [Product:] = kathānayeka (one hundred octotrigintillion, 10¹¹⁹)

   • 2018 August 2, Meteorite Debris, “EAP: Chimps in zoo go mad after eating an apple”, in alt.atheism‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 1 January 2026:

     The sequence is unlikely to be randomly reproduced and would be an ideal pass phrase because it contains sufficient entropy to be safe from hacking. In fact out of curiosity I input that sentence into https://howsecureismypassword.net/ and found "It would take a computer about 2 octotrigintillion years to crack your password".

This definition reflects the so-called short scale for large numbers. Uses in the long scale version could not be attested.

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