quattuordecillion

From Latin quattuordecim, fourteen

• Rhymes: -ɪljən

quattuordecillion

1. (US, Britain, Australia, rare, short scale) 10⁴⁵.
2. (dated, Britain, Australia, rare, long scale) 10⁸⁴.

• 2002 CE, Clifford Pickover, The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge, Cambridge University Press (2 September 2002):

  "Ooh!" Dorothy steps back in awe. "Mon Dieu. What is that cool-looking heart symbol?" "Here, ♥ indicates a quattuordecillion".

• 2002 CE, Ron Penton, Data Structures for Game Programmers, Muska & Lipman / Premier-Trade (25 November 25 2002):

  Assuming that each node in your gametree used a modest 64 bytes, that many nodes would take up 6 quattuordecillion yottabytes (I'm really not making this up).

• 2003 CE, Magic Dragon Multimedia, Timeline Cosmic Future, (2003):

  One Quattuordecillion Years From Now: Protons and neutrons decay.

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