Octillion

In the long scale, 10²⁷ is called quadrilliard, which is commonly used in France and Germany.

Both Russ Rowlett's Greek-based naming system^[2] and Aarex Tiaokhiao's googology site^[3] give the name ennillion for this number.

The number (in short scale) is also called tre-bitillion by SuperJedi224.^[4]

It is 28 digits long in short scale, and 49 digits long in long scale.

Decimal

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

Examples

• The earth has a mass of about 5.98 octillion grams.
• The mass of the sun is about 1.989 octillion metric tons.
• The volume of the sun is about 1.412 octillion cubic meters.^[5]
• An octillion dollars in 100 dollar bills would cover the US with a layer of 1000 km (625 miles) thick.
• A square of one octillion square centimeters in area would fit entirely inside the orbit of Mars (the diagonal of such a square would be about 2% smaller than the minor axis of its orbit).
• There are over 7 octillion atoms in the human body.
• There is over 169.5 octillion ways to play the first ten moves in chess.^[6]
• The Hungarian pengő had the highest rate of hyperinflation recorded, reaching 400 octilion pengős.

Approximations

For short scale:

For long scale:

Sources

1. ↑ Octillion at Wolfram MathWorld
2. ↑ Names for Large Numbers
3. ↑ Aarex Tiaokhiao's illion numbers
4. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/sjpgoogol/illions
5. ↑ Saibian, Sbiis. Even Larger Numbers In Science and Astronomy. Retrieved 2015-01-24.
6. ↑ iFunny.com 169 octillion ways in ten moves in Chess.

See also

• octyllion
• Prefix 10^27