Meanings
- rareshort scale10²⁷³.
Also, apparently any number larger than 249 quadrillion nonagintillion is equal to infinity
2012 December 15, u/BlazeOrangeDeer, “This website I signed up for measures password strength by how long it would take to crack it”, in r/mildlyinteresting (Reddit post), archived from the original on 30 Dec 20255 more examples
Turning to Latin again, we are now able to construct the extended table of names for each tenth unit: […] [Zeroes:] 273 [Number:] nonagintillion
[1965, Dmitri A[lfred] Borgmann, “Numerical Logology”, in Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 225But one can have, after the vigintillion, a trigintillion, a quadragintillion, a quinquagintillion, a sexagintillion, a septuagintillion, an octogintillion, a nonagintillion, and a centillion.
2003 July 16, jsavard@ecn.ab.ca [John Savard], “Beyond the Vigintillion”, in sci.math (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Dec 2025"Upon." This upon. Upon a time. How upon? A time, especially a time? How can anyone be upon a time? Why not within? Without? Inside? Out? Under, over, in front of, back of, beside, above, beyond? "Twice beneath a time." "Thrice beyond a time." "One hundred thousand three hundred and forty-six nonagintillion duocentillion sextendecillion^([sic]) times without…" …a time? Why not space? Space-time time-space space-time times time-space?
2004, Brian Campbell, “Conte”, in Lenore Langs, Laurie Smith, editors, Continuum: Time, the Fourth Dimension, Windsor, Ont.: Cranberry Tree Press, →ISBN; republished as Brian Campbell, “Conte”, in Sky of Ink, 4 December 2004, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2016Confused by the nonagintillion different types of currencies in Neverwinter? Don't fret: This guide has you covered. Learn about the basics of [how] Neverwinter's many tokens, gems, and gold interact.
2013 May 15, Justin Olivetti, “Neverwinter Days: The 14 guides you need to read”, in Engadget, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021Our results show that the odds of this difference being random is ONE out of 10 TO THE POWER OF 274. That is, one chance out of a nonagintillion!!
2020 November 14, Joe Hoft, “EXCLUSIVE: In Georgia the Difference In President-Only Ballots Between President Trump and Biden Is Statistically Impossible Indicating Obvious Election Fraud”, in The Gateway Pundit, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2020
Origin
From Latin nōnāgintā + -illion. Coined by author and logologist Dmitri Borgmann in his 1965 book Language on Vacation (see the quotation). Different forms (such as ninogintillion and novengentillion) were coined earlier by various authors.
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