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    Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    Hi, here's a competition.
    I was just horsing around and i found the biggest number ever
    The number must be written in letters, it doesen't have to be correct spelled.
    Here Goes:

    Ninehundred Ninetynine Quad-rillion Ninehundred Ninetynine Trillion Ninehundred Ninetynine Billion Ninehundred Ninetynine Million Ninehundred Ninetynine Thousand Ninehundred Ninetynine

    So that was my number, in numbers it would be =

    999999999999999999



    To remind you, you may not do something like Nine grillion frillion billion quad-rillion

    You have to know what you're saying.

    Edit:
    Please add something weird, funny or cool including the number
    Mine:

    Many people know the Remington 700 (R700) a nice Sniper Rifle.
    here's my version

    Remington 999999999999999999 (R999999999999999999)

    hehe :P

    Um, this is not needed for the Competition. Just something funny/weird/cool to the thread
    Last edited by Hlinzi; December 16th, 2008 at 11:59 AM. Reason: I added something to competition

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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    Ninehundred Ninetynine vigintillion Ninehundred Ninetynine novemdecillion (novendecillion) Ninehundred Ninetynine octodecillion Ninehundred Ninetynine sseptendecillion Ninehundred Ninetynine exdecillion (sedecillion)Ninehundred Ninetynine quindecillion (quinquadecillion) Ninehundred Ninetynine quattuordecillion Ninehundred Ninetynine tredecillion Ninehundred Ninetynine duodecillion Ninehundred Ninetynine undecillion Ninehundred Ninetynine decillion Ninehundred Ninetynine nonillion Ninehundred Ninetynine octillion Ninehundred Ninetynine septillion Ninehundred Ninetynine sextillion Ninehundred Ninetynine quintillion Ninehundred Ninetynine Quad-rillion Ninehundred Ninetynine Trillion Ninehundred Ninetynine Billion Ninehundred Ninetynine Million Ninehundred Ninetynine Thousand Ninehundred Ninetynine

    That is 10^66 - 1.

    The next higher named unit is centillion (10^603)

    btw : googol (10^100) and googolplex (10^googol) are also recognized by the majority of standards institutes.
















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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    wow, i guess i got owned

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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    why do you know all the vigintillion stuff and all
    ?
    Hey found it!
    http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

    Last edited by Hlinzi; December 16th, 2008 at 12:06 PM. Reason: im happy

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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    Quote Originally Posted by Hlinzi View Post
    why do you know all the vigintillion stuff and all
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    Hey found it!
    http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

    Simply because a Wizard should know such stuff....

    (The majority of the prefixes are simple counting in Latin)
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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    Quote Originally Posted by TheCPUWizard View Post
    Simply because a Wizard should know such stuff....

    (The majority of the prefixes are simple counting in Latin)
    Lol, k

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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    Graham's number is much larger than other well-known large numbers such as a googol and a googolplex...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    Quote Originally Posted by Alin View Post
    Graham's number is much larger than other well-known large numbers such as a googol and a googolplex...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
    Agreed, but by its very nature, its value can not be written or spoken as a natural number.
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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    Vigintillion is my favourite number

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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    I should note that I let my American bias in on this. Switching to traditional British, most of the terms go in powers of 6 rather than 3, so that

    1 Billion is:

    nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine

    With similar replacements throughout. This increates the number
    from 10^(66-1)
    to 10^ (105-1)

    Making a virgintillion 10^57 times more valuable!
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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    I had a roommate in college we all called Stoner Steve.

    He was the highest number I've ever known.
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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    I think the highest number is 88. Know what, because the Name A88 is the name of the spaceship landed in pluto last december 31, 2008. I think its the highest. hehehe!

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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    I have not been around with 7-11 for 2 years. All the food there are pretty expensive.
    711 is the highest nomber

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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    2012 is the highest number according to MAYAN calendar (as view point of date)
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    Re: Highest Number you Know? (Competition)

    That's sweet, 2012 seems a good year. Keep it up

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