Re: Largest digit with a name?

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From: Christopher Michael Jones
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:00

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Michael Glenn (michaelg@julian.uwo.ca) wrote:
: What is the largest digit with a name? 

: eg: million, billion, quadrillion, etc...

: Can you also include the numerical value

: eg: 1000 or 100 000  or 1 X 10^4 etc...
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Actually, all numbers can be named, this is due to the systematic naming 
conventions for numbers.  So, I can say Googleplex and then decide 
that I really wanted a Googleplexillion, which is, I believe, 
(10^10^100)*1000 .

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From: cjones@ccserver.uoregon.edu (Christopher Michael Jones)
Subject: Re: Largest digit with a name?
Date: 1996/01/19
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