quinquavigintillion

English

Etymology

From quinqua- +‎ vigintillion.

Numeral

quinquavigintillion (plural quinquavigintillions)

  1. (rare) Synonym of quinvigintillion.
    • 2011 August 7, Benjamin Udell, “Re: [peirce-l] Slow Read: "Teleology and the Autonomy of the Semiosis Process"”, in peirce-l@listserv.iupui.edu mailing list‎[1], Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, via The Mail Archive, archived from the original on 2 January 2026:
      If you believe that you can arrive at true nontrivial universal propositions (e.g., all have the same valence=1) about quinquavigintillions of hydrogen atoms almost none of which any of us will ever be able to observe or single out, then I'd say that you're banking on some generals' being discoverable and independent of any actual person's or group's opinion - i.e., some generals' being real, in Peirce's sense.
    • 2019 October 18, Gerald T[omelden] Cayabyab, Ariel M. Sison, Alexander A. Hernandez, “GISKOP: A Modified Key Scheduling Operation of International Data Encryption Algorithm using Serpent Key Scheduling”, in ICCBD ’19: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing and Big Data, New York, N.Y.: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, page 56, columns 1–2:
      The purpose of the comparison is to determine that the GISKOP algorithm is more secure than the original IDEA. The use of cipher text as an input to the online tool named “HOW SECURE IS MY PASSWORD?”[13][12][8][19]. […] [Plaintext:] c6rv_hnb w4tawrDCogU6w4P [Ciphertext:] FvRPCosKQJcOOw7LDnSzFoSPDqWLDm0JTw64= [Time to breach:] 99 quinquavigintillion years
    • 2025 July 24, Center for Genomic Regulation, “One billion-year-old rules of protein stability revealed; could lead to faster drug and enzyme design”, in Phys.org‎[2], archived from the original on 25 July 2025:
      Proteins are life's molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food to fighting viruses. They are built from 20 different types of amino acid molecules, so even a small protein made of 60 amino acids in length can, in theory, be constructed in a quinquavigintillion (1078) different ways. That's about as many atoms as there are in the entire universe.
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