A quintillion is equal to 1018 in the short scale, or 1030 in the long scale.[1][2][3][4]
Written out in decimal form quintillion (in the short scale) is:
In long scale:
This number is also called hexillion in Russ Rowlett's Greek-based naming system.[5]
Aarex Tiaokhiao calls this number hetillion.[6] He also gave name ocdoocol and 18-noogol, referring to the short scale value of this number.[7]
Wikia user NumLynx gave the name sexasand for this number's short scale value.[8]
Nicolas Chuquet coined tryllion for 1018 (not to be confused with 1032), according to the Triparty en la science des nombres, which was previously lost and not rediscovered until 1880. [9][10] Later it became trillion in long scale.
DeepLineMadom calls the number troo-yodecol, and is equal to 10[3]18 in DeepLineMadom's Array Notation.[11]
Examples[]
- Niagara Falls takes 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 or 18.877 quintillion kilometers.
- The entire Earth contains about 326 quintillion gallons of water.[12]
- There are about 43.3 quintillion ways to arrange a 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube.[13]
- The SI prefix exa- multiplies by one quintillion.
- The Earth's cross section has an area of about 1.275 quintillion square centimeters. [14]
- By one estimate, there are 20 quintillion living animals on Earth.[15]
- a tower of a quintillion one dollar bills would aproximately measure 1.099*10^20m in height.
- The half-life of Bismuth-209 is approximately 20 quintillion years.
- There are about 6.2 quintillion electrons carried by a charge of 1 coulomb (e-1).[16][17]
- The maximum value of a 64-bit signed integer, 263 - 1, is about 9.2 quintillion.
As a banknote denomination[]
1020 pengő banknote from Hungary in 1946. It is printed with "Százmillió B. Pengő", where "százmillió" means one hundred million, "B." stands for billió, which is equivalent to a billion in the long scale, or a trillion in the short scale.[18] Therefore it means 100 million trillion = 100 quintillion.
The highest denomination banknote ever issued in the world, recorded in the Guiness World Record online[19], was the 100 million billion pengő (100 quintillion = 1020 because billion is long scale) from Hungary, printed in 1946 during one of the worst hyperinflations ever recorded. See also Currency-related numbers.
Approximations[]
For short scale:
| Notation | Lower bound | Upper bound |
|---|---|---|
| Scientific notation | \(1\times10^{18}\) | |
| Arrow notation | \(10\uparrow18\) | |
| Steinhaus-Moser Notation | 15[3] | 16[3] |
| Copy notation | 9[18] | 1[19] |
| Taro's multivariable Ackermann function | A(3,56) | A(3,57) |
| Pound-Star Notation | #*(4,1,3)*6 | #*(3,1)*13 |
| BEAF | {10,18} | |
| Hyper-E notation | E18 | |
| Bashicu matrix system | (0)(0)[31622] | (0)(0)[31623] |
| Hyperfactorial array notation | 19! | 20! |
| Fast-growing hierarchy | \(f_2(54)\) | \(f_2(55)\) |
| Hardy hierarchy | \(H_{\omega^2}(54)\) | \(H_{\omega^2}(55)\) |
| Slow-growing hierarchy | \(g_{\omega^{\omega+8}}(10)\) | |
For long scale:
| Notation | Lower bound | Upper bound |
|---|---|---|
| Scientific notation | \(1\times10^{30}\) | |
| Arrow notation | \(10\uparrow30\) | |
| Steinhaus-Moser Notation | 22[3] | 23[3] |
| Copy notation | 9[30] | 1[31] |
| Taro's multivariable Ackermann function | A(3,96) | A(3,97) |
| Pound-Star Notation | #*(9,6,4)*9 | #*(0,1,0,0,1)*5 |
| BEAF | {10,30} | |
| Hyper-E notation | E30 | |
| Bashicu matrix system | (0)(0)(0)[5623] | (0)(0)(0)[5624] |
| Hyperfactorial array notation | 28! | 29! |
| Fast-growing hierarchy | \(f_2(93)\) | \(f_2(94)\) |
| Hardy hierarchy | \(H_{\omega^2}(93)\) | \(H_{\omega^2}(94)\) |
| Slow-growing hierarchy | \(g_{\omega^{\omega3}}(10)\) | |
Gallery[]
Sources[]
- ↑ Cambridge Dictionary Quintillion
- ↑ Larousse (French dictionary) Quintillion (source for long scale in French)
- ↑ Conway and Guy. The Book of Numbers. Copernicus. 1995. ISBN 978-0387979939 p.14
- ↑ Quintillion at Wolfram MathWorld
- ↑ Russ Rowlett Names for Large Numbers Archived 2006-01-10.
- ↑ Aarex Tiaokhiao's illion numbers[dead link]
- ↑ Part 1 (LAN) - Aarex Googology[dead link]
- ↑ NumLynx's Large Numbers
- ↑ Olivier Miakinen, Grands nombres : 1270-1961, sept siècles d'histoire in Écriture des nombres en français. 1 May 2004
- ↑ Robert Munafo, Origins of the Chuquet Number Names
- ↑ Pointless Googolplex Stuffs - DLMAN Part 1 (retrieved 9 November 2024)
- ↑ Saibian, Sbiis. 2.1.5 - Everyday Large Numbers for a Modern World. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
- ↑ Notable Properties of Specific Numbers (page 18)
- ↑ Almost Infinite
- ↑ How Many Wild Animals Are There?
- ↑ Lopac, Vjera, and Dario Hrupec. "What exactly are the new definitions of kilogram and other SI units?." The Physics Teacher 58.1 (2020): 58-60.
- ↑ https://metricsystem.net/derived-units/special-names/coulomb/
- ↑ Láng Attila D. Nagy számok (large number) (in Hungarian)
- ↑ Guiness World Record. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-denomination-banknote Retrieved 2024-09-18.
See also[]
10–19: decillion · undec · duodec · tredec · quattuordec · quindec · sexdec · septendec · octodec · novemdec
20–29: vigintillion · unvigint · duovigint · tresvigint · quattuorvigint · quinvigint · sesvigint · septemvigint · octovigint · novemvigint
30–39: trigintillion (un- · duo- · tres- · quattuor- · quin- · ses- · septen- · octo- · noven-)
40–49: quadragintillion (un- · duo- · tres- · quattuor- · quin- · ses- · septen- · octo- · noven-)
50–59: quinquagintillion (un- · duo- · tres- · quattuor- · quin- · ses- · septen- · octo- · noven-)
60–69: sexagintillion (un- · duo- · tre- · quattuor- · quin- · se- · septen- · octo- · noven-)
70–79: septuagintillion (un- · duo- · tre- · quattuor- · quin- · se- · septen- · octo- · noven-)
80–89: octogintillion (un- · duo- · tres- · quattuor- · quin- · sex- · septem- · octo- · novem-)
90–99: nonagintillion (un- · duo- · tre- · quattuor- · quin- · se- · septe- · octo- · nove-)
100–900: centillion · ducent · trecent · quadringent · quingent · sescent · septingent · octingent · nongent
1,000–1030: millillion · dumill · dumillinonagintanongent · trimill · trimilliduotrigintatrecent · trimillisexoctogintaoctingent · quadrimill · quadrimilliquattuordecicent · quinmill · sexmill · septimill · octimill · nonimill · myr · decimilliquinsexagintasescent · dumyr · unquadragintamilliunquinquagintacent · centimill · micr · nan · pic · femt · att · zept · yoct · ront · quect