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by Anonymous on June 27th, 2009

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What do you call the amount divisions of million billion trillion quadrillion quintillion...etc.

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  • by JimmyG on June 27th, 2009

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    Successive powers of a thousand. Here's the history:

    http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/culture.htm#zillion

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  • by de Joisey on June 27th, 2009

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    they are known as "standard dictionary numbers". I don't know if there is a specific name for the "-illion" at the end.

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