Lets do the math!!! :-)

[Tiberius]

yes its different...

for example billion in US is 10 raised to the power of 9 or 1.000.000.000
while in the UK its 10 in the power of 12 or 1.000.000.000.000

see here http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/numbers_names.php

 

[Tiberius]

I am credited for creating the name for the number vistillion, the largest
number yet to be conceived by a human,
you can read the definition here:


Vistillion

Is a gigantic number.

A googol is 10 in the power of 100 (thats a 1, with 100 zeros after it)
a googolplex is 10 in the power of a googol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

a Vistillion dwarfs these numbers...

a Vistillion is a googolplex in the power of a googolplex,
and is equal to the amount of RAM needed for vista to run smoothly (in
megabytes).

 

[Frank]

I am credited for creating the name for the number vistillion,

Yeah you're a legacy in your own mind.
Frank

 

[PeeGee]

yes its different...

for example billion in US is 10 raised to the power of 9 or 1.000.000.000
while in the UK its 10 in the power of 12 or 1.000.000.000.000

see here http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/numbers_names.php

OK, a bit of a screw-up. I was thinking milliard (10^9) and then wrote
million instead of thousand :-(


PeeGee
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