Quintillion

A quintillion is equal to 1018 in America, or 1030 in France and Germany.

This number is also called hexillion in Greek-based naming system of zillions.

Aarex Tiaokhiao gave the name hetillion, referring to the value of this number.

Decimal
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 - short scale

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - long scale

Examples

 * Niagara Falls up 210,000 years (about 30 times all recorded history) to use up a quintillion gallons of water.
 * A single drop of water contains 1.7 quintillion water molecules.
 * The distance from the Milky way to Andromeda is 2 million light years, which is about 11.73 quintillion miles.
 * The entire Earth contains about 326 quintillion gallons of water.
 * There are about 43.3 quintillion ways to arrange a 3&times;3&times;3.

The prefix exa- has meaning of one quintillion.