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==What did Chuquet really propose?== |
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Several Web pages make a reference to a passage in Chuquet's book in which he shows a large number marked off into groups of six digits and comments: |
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:Ou qui veult le premier point peult signiffier million Le second point byllion Le tiers poit tryllion Le quart quadrillion Le cinqe quyllion Le sixe sixlion Le sept.e septyllion Le huyte ottyllion Le neufe nonyllion et ainsi des ault's se plus oultre on vouloit preceder |
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:(Or if you prefer the first mark can signify million, the second mark byllion, the third mark tryllion, the fourth quadrillion, the fifth quyillion, the sixth sixlion, the seventh septyllion, the eighth ottyllion, the ninth nonyllion and so on with others as far as you wish to go). |
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This clearly refers to names in steps of powers of six. But *[http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/math/largenum.html Robert Munafo's article] quotes a different passage, |
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:Au lieu de dire mille milliers, on dira million, au lieu de dire mille millions, on dira byllion, etc..., et tryllion, quadrilion ... octylion, nonyllion, et ainsi des autres si plus oultre on voulait proceder. French: "Instead of saying one thousand thousand, one may say million; instead of saying one thousand million, one may say billion, and trillion, quadrillion, ... octillion, nonillion, and others as well, as far as you wish to go." |
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and comments |
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:These number names were adopted throughout Europe during the next century (with minor spelling changes for each language). Chuquet intended the names to represent powers of 1000 as the quote above clearly shows. |
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So, it's not at all clear to me what the Chuquet system really was. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] ([[User talk:Dpbsmith#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Dpbsmith|contribs]]) 13:36, 5 June 2004 (UTC)</small> |
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==Usage in science== |
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Shouldn't this article have a bit of text about the fact that none of these words are used in science because of their ambiguous nature? <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/217.122.115.98|217.122.115.98]] ([[User talk:217.122.115.98#top|talk]]) 16:49, 11 August 2005 (UTC)</small> |
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== Other names of large numbers == |
== Other names of large numbers == |
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Other names of large numbers
I have listed other names of large numbers on AfD (Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Other_names_of_large_numbers), people watching this page might want to comment on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruud Koot (talk • contribs) 03:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Quadrillion
Just thought I would mention I found this article when I actually needed to use the word for 1015 and did not know it's word[1].
Thanks for the informative article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by H (talk • contribs) 16:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Please add Googolplexian
10^10^10^100[[Googolplex‹∞› — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:CD:C882:8D20:4008:B107:4C6A:293C (talk) 17:18, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
A suggestion of large number names
Why use centillion, not hectillion, for 10303? In SI prefix, "centi-" is 10−2, and "hecto-" is 102, and the number is "100-illion", not "0.01-illion"!!! Thus should be hectillion, not centillion.
A suggestion of larger number names is: (in American scale, or short scale)
hectillion = 10303
kilillion = 103003
megillion = 103×106+3
gigillion = 103×109+3
terillion = 103×1012+3
petillion = 103×1015+3
exillion = 103×1018+3
zettillion = 103×1021+3
yottillion = 103×1024+3
xonillion = 103×1027+3
wecillion = 103×1030+3
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.8.178.137 (talk) 15:32, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
nomenclature for numbers very large indices base 10
My son (Charlie C.) asked about what a number would be called if it had a quadrillion zeros.
He came up with a prefix dind-
So dindquadrillion.
Prefix dind meaning "deco index"
Is this type of number already succintly named? If so, what nomenclature do people use? 2001:8003:ED68:D500:5C75:FE6A:9568:ADDC (talk) 21:48, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- I don't think we have or need common names for such numbers, simply because there aren't that many of anything. For example, to describe the number of atoms in the universe, we only need 80 zeros. Even there, 1080 seems a lot easier to understand than obscure wording such as a hundred quinvigintillion. Certes (talk) 22:56, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
Million,Milliard,Billion,Trillion,Quadrillion,Quintillion had a Un,Duo,Tre,Quattuor and Quin
Well here it is:
Unmillion Unmilliard Unbillion Untrillion Unquadrillion Unquintillion
Duomillion Duomilliard Duobillion Duotrillion Duoquadrillion Duoquintillion
Tremillion Tremilliard Trebillion Tretrillion Trequadrillion Trequintillion
Quattuormillion Quattuormilliard Quattuorbillion Quattuortrillion Quattuorquadrillion Quattuorquintillion
Quinmillion Quinmilliard Quinbillion Quintrillion Quinquadrillion Quinquintillion
That's all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.88.205.90 (talk) 20:17, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
Suggestions of numbers
Hectillion = 103,078 Unhectillion = 103,081 Duohectillion = 103,084 Trehectillion = 103,087 Quattuorhectillion = 103,090 Quinhectillion = 103,093 Sexhectillion = 103,096 Septenhectillion = 103,099 Octohectillion = 103,102 Novemhectillion = 103,105 213.211.86.128 (talk) 10:23, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you, but this article is only for common names used widely in reliable sources. Wikipedia does not publish original research such as inventing new names. Certes (talk) 12:08, 19 September 2023 (UTC)