Meaning of duocentillion | Babel Free

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10³⁰⁹.

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“Names of the Periods.—1st, Units. 2d, Thousands. 3d, Millions. 4th, Billions. 5th, Trillions. 6th, Quadrillions. 7th, Quintillions. 8th, Sextillions. 9th, Septillions. 10th. Octillions. 11th, Nonillions. 12th, Decillions. 13th, Undecillions. 14th, Duodecillions. 15th, Tridecillions. 16th, Quadrodecillions. 17th, Quindecillions. 18th, Sexdecillions. 19th, Septodecillions. 20th, Octodecillions. 21st, Nonodecillions. 22d. Vingintillions.^([sic]) 23d, Unvingintillions. 24th, Duo-vingintillions, etc. 32d, Trigintillions. 42d, Quadrogintillions, 52d, Quingintillions. 62d, Sexagintillions. 72d, Septuagintillions. 82d, Octogintillions. 92d, Ninogintillions. 102d, Centillions. 103d, Uncentillions. 104th, Duocentillions, etc. 202d, Duocentillions,^([sic – meaning Ducentillions]) etc. 1002d, Millillions, etc.”

“"Upon." This upon. Upon a time. How upon? A time, especially a time? How can anyone be upon a time? Why not within? Without? Inside? Out? Under, over, in front of, back of, beside, above, beyond? "Twice beneath a time." "Thrice beyond a time." "One hundred thousand three hundred and forty-six nonagintillion duocentillion sextendecillion times without…" …a time? Why not space? Space-time time-space space-time times time-space?”

“Despite the fact that 2¹⁰²⁴ is a discrete number, that each of its 309 digits are known quantities, and that mathematical operations may be carried out both with and within it, enumeration of such a figure not only outpaces human consciousness but time and space. We cannot count to a duocentillion.”

“[T]here followed one undecicentillion duocentillion, and from there, toward the end of the book there ensued the following shocking number, which, even if he did not denote it with letters but only with numbers of course, as he had done up till now, namely, there then came the number of nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine-undecicentillion, nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine-duocentillion, nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine-nonaginta-tredecillion, nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine-nonaginta-nonillion, nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine-nonaginta-septillion, nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine-nonaginta-quintillion, nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine nonaginta-trillion, nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine nonaginta-million, nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine nonagintillion, so that here, with the usual ellipses, he indicated that he was going to jump forward a bit, namely he jumped forward by immeasurable quantities, then suddenly he informed his readers that from this point onward he would make use of exponential notation, […]”

“Ernie enthusiastically attempts to write down all possible sequences of 100 die rolls. Bert is flabbergasted and interrupts him. Bert points out that there are 6⁴ = 1296 different combinations of face values of four dice, and Ernie cannot possibly write down all sequences of 100 rolls, as 1296¹⁰⁰ is more than 100 duocentillion.”

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