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9,223,372,036,854,775,808

How would one pronounce that...

I can get to the trillion, but then I start making up numbers like I was
when I was three like "gagillion"

It is nice though that Microsoft .NET is U.S. Deficit Compliant.
 
MathMojo...

That is awesome. =) Definatly nice to learn what an illiard is though... I
have a british friend, I just pretend I know what he's saying. =)
 
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

How would one pronounce that...

I can get to the trillion, but then I start making up numbers like I was
when I was three like "gagillion"

It is nice though that Microsoft .NET is U.S. Deficit Compliant.
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Here's a chart that goes up to 10^(10^100), a "googolplex":
http://g42.org/MiscInfo/numbers.html

I used to have a link to a page that discussed even *bigger* numbers,
but alas, 'tis lost...
 
I should point out, as a UK citizen with a maths degree and a pretty decent
vocabulary, that I've never heard of the words milliard, billiard or
trilliard. (Billiards is a word, but is a game played on a snooker/pool
type table.)

So I wouldn't try impressing any European friends with this info.


Auric__ said:
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

How would one pronounce that...

I can get to the trillion, but then I start making up numbers like I was
when I was three like "gagillion"

It is nice though that Microsoft .NET is U.S. Deficit Compliant.
Click to expand...

Here's a chart that goes up to 10^(10^100), a "googolplex":
http://g42.org/MiscInfo/numbers.html

I used to have a link to a page that discussed even *bigger* numbers,
but alas, 'tis lost...
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THUNK THUNK WHIRR GRIND GRIND]
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Hi Rob,
Billiards is a word, but is a game played on a snooker/pool type table.
Click to expand...

A real British answer, is it not something as

"Snooker/pool are games played on special types of billiard tables"

:-)

Cor
 
I should point out, as a UK citizen with a maths degree and a pretty decent
vocabulary, that I've never heard of the words milliard, billiard or
trilliard. (Billiards is a word, but is a game played on a snooker/pool
type table.)

So I wouldn't try impressing any European friends with this info.
Click to expand...

I've heard of milliard, never used it. I've never heard billiard used as
a number either, but what the hell. If I remember right, milliard is a
French convention, adopted by the UK some time ago but (apparently) not
universal. The "non-milliard" system is German (I think) and sees wider
popularity.
 
Hi Auric

English is a language which derives from Germanic (and special in that
Danish and the old Nordsea language not German), French and the Gallic
languages.

I thought that in all those languages it is

million-miljon (or whatever)
milliard-miljard (or whatever)
billion-biljon (or whatever)

Sheems to be a shift in the language, why I do not know.

Cor
 
HA! Thats some funny stuff again.. =)

I brought this up to a friend last night from britan, he asked me , "what
the f*** is a billiard?"
 
LOL, same here! I have a friend at the Univ of Bristol in UK who is getting
his doctrate in mathmatics/cryptology and he didn't have a clue what I was
talking about.
 
Now I think I see it,

Always the same with those Americans.

They probably did not understand that a Milliard was no Billiard and the
corrected that to Billion.

:-)

Cor
 
Auric__ said:
I've heard of milliard, never used it. I've never heard billiard used as
a number either, but what the hell. If I remember right, milliard is a
French convention, adopted by the UK some time ago but (apparently) not
universal. The "non-milliard" system is German (I think) and sees wider
popularity.
Click to expand...

Actually, it's not. I *am* German, and I think I lost about a milliard four
years ago at the stock marked.
Believe me, I know, what a milliard is...

;-)

Klaus


 
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