Return to 2 - 4. Previous : Origins of the -illions. How many zeroes does a zillion have? Kid's often ask this. In fact when I was a kid I was asked this by some other kids who figured I would know since I was such a "math whiz". I told them that there was no such number, but if there was it would be written out like this I continued until the teacher finally decided I was a distraction and told me to stop. I probably gave those kids the impression that a zillion really was a number, but what I had said initially was true.
It's earliest known use was in [1]. Most likely in response to the "absurd" proliferation of -illion names all the way up to vigintillion, people started to use the term "zillion" simply as a joke meaning some really unfathomably large number. Logically we can at least assume that a "Zillion" is some vastly large power of , but which?
Certainly it could not represent any commonly known -illion, since it is meant to sound esoteric. So a zillion is certainly larger than a million, a billion, a trillion, etc.
Just how far out does it go then? That's where it becomes arbitrary. Zillion may represent ANY very large power of a thousand, certainly larger than a trillion, and maybe even a vigintillion or centillion! Just as a million had spawned the Chuquet illions, the "zillion" also had many follow ups.
The first use of the term "Jillion" was in [2] , and the first use of "gazillion" was in [3]. Since then there has been an explosion in number of terms, with too many to mention. Some of the most common ones are: zillion, gazillion, jillion, gajillion, bazillion, bajillion, etc. There seems to be some agreement that some of these are unfathomably larger than some others, though of coarse, not by any specified amount. One source actually provides this convenient ranking system.
We can say that zillion and jillion are roughly in the same class in terms of vastness. Beyond these lie the more ginormous bazillion and bajillion. Beyond even these are the incomprehensible gazillion and gajillion [4]. Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more. Membership is free, and your security and privacy remain protected.
View our privacy policy before signing up. Menu ARN How many zeros make a gazillion? Follow Us Twitter LinkedIn. Join the newsletter! Sign in with LinkedIn Sign in with Facebook. A million has six zeros, a billion has nine, and a trillion has A jillion is an enormous number of something.
But like zillion, jillion is imprecise. A googol is a 1 with a hundred zeroes behind it. The first 25 prime numbers all the prime numbers less than are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97 sequence A in the OEIS.
Therefore, every prime number other than 2 is an odd number, and is called an odd prime.
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