How to spell this enormous number??

[nq:1]Hi! I have problem with reading this huge numbers: 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000,000,000 do you have any idea??? please help me[/nq]
two hundred octillion
one hundred quadrillion

Steny '08!

[nq:1]Hi! I have problem with reading this huge numbers: 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000[/nq]
Name: 200 octillion
Scientific notation: 2 x 10^29
Engineering notation: 200 (10^27)
[nq:1]and 100,000,000,000,000,000[/nq]
Name: 100 quadrillion
Scientific notation: 1 x 10^17
Engineering notation: 100 (10^15)
Don
Kansas City

[nq:2]Hi! I have problem with reading this huge numbers: 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000,000,000 do you have any idea??? please help me[/nq]
[nq:1]two hundred octillion[/nq]
This one, I wouldn't have even touched.
[nq:1]one hundred quadrillion[/nq]
I would have said a hundred gazillion and let it go at that.

Dena Jo
Email goes to denajo2 at

[nq:1]Hi! I have problem with reading this huge numbers: 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000,000,000 do you have any idea???[/nq]
Many.

It's not that tough. I got interested in this when I was a kid and my mom told me about the terms "trillion" and "quadrillion" and that she didn't know the ones beyond that. So I looked it up in our big dictionary and it has stuck with me since.
Each set of three digits, separated by commas, is another "-illion". The first, counting from the right, are the "hundreds", the next, to the left are

Almost nobody calls such large numbers by name, at least in English.

People who actually use such large numbers would probably read them as follows:
200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is "two times ten to the twenty-nine"
100,000,000,000,000,000 is "ten to the seventeen"

[nq:1]Incidentally, the number "1" followed by one hundred zeros (10[/nq]^100) is a
[nq:1]"google", believe it or not. Ten raised to the google power is a "googolplex". These are also trivial, useless terms.[/nq]
No, 10^100 is a "googol." Google changed the spelling so they could trademark it.
Bill.

William R Ward (Email Removed)

[nq:1]Incidentally, the number "1" followed by one hundred zeros (10[/nq]^100) is a
[nq:1]"google", believe it or not.[/nq]
I don't believe it.

Steny '08!

[nq:2]Incidentally, the number "1" followed by one hundred zeros (10[/nq]^100) is a
[nq:2]"google", believe it or not. Ten raised to the google power is a "googolplex". These are also trivial, useless terms.[/nq]
[nq:1]No, 10[/nq]^100 is a "googol." Google changed the spelling so they could
[nq:1]trademark it.[/nq]
I wonder whether "Googol" would have been an obstacle. Imagine if t

[nq:1]million 10[/nq]^6
[nq:1]billion 10[/nq]^9
[nq:1]trillion 10[/nq]^12
[nq:1]quadrillion 10[/nq]^15
[nq:1]quintillion 10[/nq]^18
[nq:1]sextillion 10[/nq]^21
[nq:1]septillion 10[/nq]^24
[nq:1]octillion 10[/nq]^27
[nq:1]nonillion 10[/nq]^30
[nq:1]decillion 10[/nq]^33undecillion 10^36
duodecillion 10^39
tredecillion 10^42
quattuordecillion 10^45