quintillion
pronunciation
How to pronounce quintillion in British English:
UK [kwɪnˈtɪljən]
How to pronounce quintillion in American English:
US [kwɪnˈtɪljən]
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- Noun:
- the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros
Word Origin
- quintillion (n.)
- 1670s, from Latin quintus "the fifth" (see quinque-) + ending from million. Compare billion. In Great Britain, the fifth power of a million (1 followed by 30 zeroes); in U.S. the sixth power of a thousand (1 followed by 18 zeroes).
Example
- 1. There are , say mathematicians , 43 quintillion possible combinations .
- 2. Last year alone , five quintillion ( 10 to the power of 18 ) transistors were embedded into objects other than computers .
- 3. By 2018 , japan , the u.s. and china are targeting the development of supercomputer capable of doing 1 quintillion ( 1 million trillion ) calculations per second .
- 4. On the contrary , robert kirkpatrick , a former it expert who now runs the un 's global pulse unit , argues that we should treat those 2.5 quintillion bytes of big data as an international common good .