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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
How high can you count?
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nombres_de ... pa%C3%B1ol
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalas_nu ... ga_y_corta
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millardo

Are you ever going to use those denominations practically? The highest number I have ever mentioned has been Quintillion, and that was just thinking on what was after Quadrillion, and in turn, that was only to see what was after Trillion.
A centillion (in both scales) is even larger than Googol, and that's saying a lot considering that there aren't even Googol atoms in the universe.

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Didn't this use to have more interesting questions?

No.

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Torco, people talk about billions all the time, and sometimes trillions. Maybe it's just a thing of materialist America, since mainly these numbers appear in economychat, and sometimes when talking about population. A comparison. Admittedly I don't know what their corpus is like, maybe lots of science-type books are inflating the counts for 'billion' and 'trillion' [on the other hand, what proper science book actually spells them out?].

Brel wrote:Age (as of this posting): 26
Gender: female
Nationality: American
State/Province/Other Subdivision: originally Alaska, now Washington
Occupation: ESL teacher
Sexual Orientation: homosexual
Status: single
Native Language: English
Secondary Languages: none
Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: I don't care much about languages anymore. I spend most of my time learning history.
Religion: none
Politics: none
Shoe size: 7
Handedness: left
Who Would Win in a Fist Fight Between Michael Dorn and a Zombie Benjamin Whorf?: no idea

Didn't this use to have more interesting questions?

Yeah, or at least its predecessors did. We used to have like a new one of these every year, but this one's stuck around for a bit longer now.

I wonder if the fact that the year wasn't added to the title of the thread has anything to do with it. It's been there since April 2011!