Names of Large Numbers

This article lists and discusses the usage and derivation of names of large numbers, together with their possible extensions.

The following table lists those names of large numbers which are found in many English dictionaries and thus have a special claim to being "real words". The "Traditional British" values shown are unused in American English and are becoming rare in British English, but their other language variants are dominant in many non-English-speaking areas, including continental Europe and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America; see Long and short scales.

English also has many words, such as "zillion", used informally to mean large but unspecified amounts; see indefinite and fictitious numbers.

Read more about Names Of Large Numbers:  Standard Dictionary Numbers, Usage of Names of Large Numbers, Origins of The "standard Dictionary Numbers", An aide-memoire, The Googol Family, Extensions of The Standard Dictionary Numbers, Proposals For New Naming System, Other Large Numbers Used in Mathematics and Physics

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