Talk:Gillion

What is the history of the "G" at the beginning of this word?? Using the same system, what is a more complete list of numbers using this system??

American name = Gillion name


 * Billion = Gillion
 * Trillion =
 * Quadrillion =
 * Quintillion =
 * Sextillion =
 * Septillion =
 * Octillion =
 * Nonillion =
 * Decillion =

66.245.116.108 22:03, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Response

According to, the word history of gillion is a combination of giga- and -illion. -- Merovingian &#9997;  Talk  13:41, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Several Internet sites say that the pronunciation of this word can be either with a hard or a soft g, depending on how giga is pronounced. I disagree with this, though. I say that the g should be pronounced hard in this word simply to distinguish it from the indefinite word jillion. Any comments?? 66.245.87.146 00:30, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree. -- Merovingian &#1124; Talk  13:59, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

Google Search
Google does more than 10,000 results for this word, and among the first few, a pretty large majority talk about this word as meaning 10^9 on the basis of mega/million. (Note that I also e-mailed this information to Rowlett himself, but I got a response saying he is away from the office and won't be able to respond until October 15.) This must mean that this word is gradually becoming somewhat genuine. Any comments about this?? 66.245.96.130 16:56, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)