Quadrillion

A quadrillion is equal to 1015 in America, or 1024 in France and Germany.

In the long scale, 1015 is called billiard (not to be confused with a game), which is commonly used in France and Germany.

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

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

Decimal

 * 1,000,000,000,000,000 - short scale
 * 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - long scale

Examples

 * Niagara Falls use up a quadrillion gallons a little over 210 years.
 * There is a quadrillion grains of sand on the beach.
 * The entire financial assets of the earth probably only amount to about a quadrillion US dollars.
 * The great lakes have a volume of about 6 quadrillion gallons.
 * The known universe is only about 473 quadrillion seconds old.
 * It's about 586 quadrillion miles from one end of the milky way to the other.
 * The SI prefix peta- multiplies by one quadrillion.