Forum:Centimillillion

10^3,303 and 10^300,003 are both called the same thing, Centimillillion. I believe this to be a major oversight, and have come up with a suggestion.

The most common large number system is the -illion system, which uses various prefixes from around the world to denote how many zeros after the first three there are (for the short scale, anyway. Long scale counts groups of six zeros). For any number k^n, where K is 1,000, and N is the exponent, the exponent is usually written with the ones place first, then the tens, then the hundreds, and so on. For example, k^4,322 (10^12,966) is Un-viginti-trecenti-quadrimillillion. I don't have a problem with this, but I have recently discovered the fact that k^1,101, named Centi-millillion, and k^100,001, named Centimillillion, have the same name. Thus, I propose that k^100,001 be renamed Lakillion/Lakhillion, using the Indian word lakh, which means 100,000. I also propose that this, and the Myril- prefix, be attached to all the metric and greek prefixes above (k^10,000,001 is Myrimicrillion, k^100,000,000,000,001 is Lakipicillion, k^(10*k^20+1) is Myrilicosillion, etc.)