On this page :
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers#Extensions_of_the_stand
ard_dictionary_numbers> or otherwise <http://preview.tinyurl.com/355l2q>
there are listed twenty two terms for various numerical quantities. Only
one of them (million) is the same in each scale, and the bigest difference
is (of course) in the term for the largest number, centillion which might be
10^303 or there again could be 10^600 - but who's counting?
Piers
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From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) OT; China - a shift in global power?
From the table I concluded that sextillion is only used in the short scale.
Chuck Norcutt
Piers Hemy wrote:
> ... nor do *I* know whether that is sextillion ton[ne]s by the long
> (10^36) or short (10^21) scale.
>
> I wonder what is the resulting range of possible answers?
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 November 2009 11:22
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) OT; China - a shift in global power?
>
> I noted the term "sextillion" at the bottom of the table in the link
below.
> That called to mind a little factoid I've carried in my head for years
> and years and the only time I've heard "sextillion" in usage...
> the weight of the earth is six sextillion tons.
>
> Now I don't know whose version of "ton" is meant here... :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> SwissPace wrote:
>> I believe the american trillion like the billion differs from what
>> europe thinks it means
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
>>
>> so maybe 347 trillion is not so far from 2 trillion.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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