novemdecillion

plural novemdecillions · alternative novendecillion

1. USraremodern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale10⁶⁰.

   Go up to 60 zeros -- that's a novemdecillion -- and you can measure the volume of the galaxy in cubic inches [...].

   2001 July 15, John Flanagan, “How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, archived from the original on 17 May 2007

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   It is one chance in a novemdecillion. For those who like to be precise, that exact statistic is one chance in 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,676,069,604,401,795,301,376.

   1962, Jerry D. Lewis, Crusade against crime, Random House, page 314

   For an extreme example, see US Patent No. 5,422,351 (filed June 21, 1991). This particular patent includes a structural formula in claim 1 that encompasses at least one novemdecillion (10r^([sic]), or one followed by sixty zeroes) chemical compounds

   2010, SB Seymore, “Rethinking Novelty in Patent Law”, in Duke Law Journal

   It has the shape of a disk, and is ten to the fifty-ninth power yojanas in circumference, a number called a novemdecillion, and is 1,600,000 yojanas deep.

   1998, Sean O'Shea, Meryl A. Walker, The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story, →ISBN, page 66

   The index tells us that Zimbabwe's inflation rate recently peaked at 80 billion percent a month. That means around 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent a year—or 65 followed by 107 zeros.

   2008 December 22, Steven Hanke, “The Printing Press”, in Forbes

   grangs med, literally “without count,” is also said to indicate the number ten to the fiftieth or sixtieth power (novemdecillion). Still less than a googol!

   2011, Sarah Harding, Niguma, Lady of Illusion, page 286

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2. datedrareBritish & Australian; long scale; British & Australian; long scale10¹¹⁴.
3. colloquialexcessiveA very large but unspecified number (of).

   2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications http://www.abarim-publications.com/JessicaRabbitExplains.html ‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’.

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   ‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’.

   2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)

   ‘The odds that one of the Cowboys linebacking corps reads this blog is one in... oh, let’s use a really big number... a novemdecillion’.

   http://www.knowyourdallascowboys.com/?p=601 (http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:OFegiwwAB7oJ:faircatch.net/player/terrell_owens+novemdecillion&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=134)