Talk:English-language numerals

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Names above quintillion are very rarely used in ordinary conversations, instead, they are read as 10^X.

What advantage is there of dropping the names such as sextillion?? 66.32.123.177 17:56, 1 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Very few people know what they mean. – Smyth 12:43, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Are the two different spellings, vigintillion and vigentillion, intentional? --Erik Eckhardt 19:34, 10 December 2005

Suggested merge with Names of large numbers
I don't think this article should be merged, as it is of enough interest in its own right. You always hear people talking about what the word "billion" means where, so it is useful to be able to link directly to an article that explains that, and not just a section with another article. Kennethmac2000 2 July 2005 22:31 (UTC)

Might it not be better merged with (either from or to) Long and short scales? Double Blue (Talk) 17:11, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

No, should not be merged, because "English-language numerals" is a concise page. List of numbers is a huge page, with this and that! --Paul Martin 20:49, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

DO NOT MERGE! This is the most absurd proposed merger I've ever seen! This page is about the names of numbers in one particular language; the other is about the numbers themselves. Michael Hardy 00:30, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Don't merge It's a bad idea, though a critical editing of both articles might merge some material from one into the other. Article "E" (English-language numerals) deals / should deal with "ordinary" numbers, where as article "N" (Names of large numbers) focuses on large numbers. The stuff in "E" is fairly special for English (though of course other languages follow similar principles). The stuff in "N" is quite universal (language-independent), except for the distinction between Long and short scales.--Niels Ø 15:41, 16 February 2006 (UTC)