quinquatrigintillion en · NUM
Etymology
From quinqua- (“five”) + trigintillion.
Meanings
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(qualifier:short scale, rare) 10¹⁰⁸.
In December 2008, Zimbabwe’s annual inflation was estimated at 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent or 6 quinquatrigintillion 500 quattuortrigintillion percent or one googol 65 million percent. That’s 65 followed by 107 zeros.
2010 November–December, “Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation by the Numbers”, in CEI Planet, volume 23, number 6, Washington, D.C.: Competitive Enterprise Institute, page 12, column 2:Can you imagine how big a quinquatrigintillion is?
2023 November 27, “Books to build mathematical understanding in Years 3 and 4”, in Education, Sydney, N.S.W.: NSW Government, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2024:In the 2014 version of the SAT, there were 44 multiple-choice questions in the math (quantitative) section, 67 in the critical reading (qualitative) section, and 47 in the newfangled writing section. Each question has five options, so a random guess has a 20 percent chance of being right. […] The probability of getting all 158 questions right is: #92;frac#123;1#125;#123;5#123;44
2014 September 2, Randall Munroe, “SAT Guessing”, in What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, pages 278–279: