quinquadecillion

According to present figures, all the matter in existence, in our own and other universes, weighs some 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons, or a little more in English tons. There is a simpler way to write it in figures, but the newspaper linotype has not the necessary type faces. In words, it is twenty quinquadecillion tons.

1936 January 8, “How Big Is Big?”, in San Francisco Chronicle, volume CXLVII, number 177, San Francisco, Calif.: George T. Cameron, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10 (Editorial Page), column 2

that is $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 thank you!

2013 November 25, Administrator, “send me a quinquadecillion dollars”, in rec.nude (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Dec 2025

For example, computronium is a hypothetical substrate that is calculated as the densest and most efficient computing material allowed by the laws of physics. Physicist Seth Lloyd calculates that such a mythical material could compute on the order of 5 x 10^50 (500 quinquadecillion) calculations per second.

2018 October 2, Steven Novella, “The Singularity”, in The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How To Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN

What’s really terrible luck is to hate the holy ones. For more than two quinquadecillion years, and another five quattuordecillion years, a slanderer of noble ones goes to hell, having aimed bad words and thoughts at them.

2018–2023, Bhikkhu Sujato, transl., “AN 4.3 Broken (1st): Paṭhamakhatasutta”, in Numbered Discourses: A Sensible Translation of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, volume 2 (AN 4), Eastwood, S.A.: SuttaCentral c/o Alwis & Alwis, published 6 March 2023, →ISBN, page 5