quat·tu·or·de·cil·lion

(kwŏt′o͞o-ôr-dĭ-sĭl′yən, kwŏt′yo͞o-)

1. The cardinal number equal to 10⁴⁵.

2. Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 10⁸⁴.

[Latin quattuordecim, fourteen (quattuor, four; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots + decem, ten; see deci-) + (m)illion.]

quat′tu·or·de·cil′lion adj.

quat′tu·or·de·cil′lionth adj.adv. & n.

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quat•tu•or•de•cil•lion

(ˈkwɒt uˌɔr dɪˈsɪl yən, ˈkwɒt yu-)

n., pl. -lions, (as after a numeral) -lion, n.

1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 45 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 84 zeros.

adj.

2. amounting to one quattuordecillion in number.

[1900–05; < Latin quattuordec(im) fourteen (quattuor four + -decim, comb. form of decem ten) + -illion (as in million)]

References in periodicals archive

First of a single number word: ACDEIILLNOOQRTTUU (quattuordecillion).

Highest value number words: quattuordecillion (216) and quattuordecillionth (244).

Extreme number names

(A patient identified as Tau, speaking for "a quattuordecillion others," demands that the doctor quit giving them contaminated or harmful ice [or amphetamines?] and leave them atone.)

Kickshaws November 2013

QUATTUORDECILLION ([10.sup.45]) = (Q/U)(A x Twenty/Thousand)E(-U - [[One.sup.R x D - Eight x C]] - [I.sup.L] + [L.sup.I] + O - Nine)

QUINDECILLION ([10.sup.48]) = [(Q + [square root of [U {I + Nineteen}]] - D).sup.(Eight)(C - I - L - L - I - One + Nine)] or QUINDECILLION = Quattuordecillion x ([U x {[I.sup.{Ninety+D+Eighty+C}] + I}]E[{L/L} + I + [One.sup.Nine])

Acrostic equations

The same argument goes for these numbers too: TRILLION, QUADRILLION, QUINTILLION, SEXTILLION, SEPTILLION, OCTILLION, NONILLION, DECILLION, UNDECILLION, DUODECILLION, TREDECILLION, QUATTUORDECILLION, QUINDECILLION, SEXDECILLION, SEPTENDECILLION, OCTODECILLION, NOVEMDECILLION, VIGINTILLION ...

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