Talk:Indefinite and fictitious large numbers

Guess what? Gajillion (which should be included in this article) is a real number. Except it's spelled gigillion. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_names_of_large_numbers and do ctrl-f. It's $${10}^{{3 * {{10}^{3,000,000,000}}} + 3}$$. Maybe this should be mentioned?


 * Yes, it should. --Merovingian (t) (c) 13:57, 11 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Do we have a legitimate reference for "gagillion" or "gigillion" actually being used this way? I can't find this listed on Mathworld.  All is see is this AOL page, where it is mentioned by the author as one of the "names I invented". -- Curps 16:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Ah. I guess I may have jumped to conclusions.  --Merovingian (t) (c) 16:28, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Maybe I did too. Although if you Google some of these, you may get support. For example, "gigillion" is here, though the reference they used is a broken link. Notice, though, that "gigillion" has the prefix giga-, and before it are "megillion" and "killillion," and following it is "terillion." (recognize the kilo-, mega, and tera- prefixes?) Now, this isn't proof at all, but it means it's less likely to just have been stuck randomly in there. Twilight Realm 01:47, 13 October 2005 (UTC) Ok, I found that AOL site, right here. So, this guy just invented gigillion. Still, I think it may still have some validity to it; see the talk page of the Other_names_of_large_numbers article.


 * Doesn't 'kajillion' come from another way to pronounce 'quadrillion' (another real number)? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 00:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't. 24.127.224.173 03:30, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

What happened to the other examples?
It took me awhile to realize that this article was in fact the same one I worked on months ago, which was about all fictional numbers like Zillion. This one just mentions others. Is there any reason to have taken out the part in the first sentence listing other fictional numbers, like gajillion, kajillion, and all the others that I can't remember? Or did some deletion-happy person just come along and take them out? Twilight Realm 05:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't know. But I think that some of those examples were made up by one of the past editors of this article. I spot checked a few and at least one got no GHits. Paddles TC 06:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Removing unsourced examples of "-illion" words
I think "jillion" and ''kajillion" can probably be sourced so I'm leaving them tagged for the moment. I'm moving these here. They should not be reinserted unless sourced. Dpbsmith (talk) 09:57, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Many similar words are used, such as hojillion, kabajillion', bagillion, jabillion, fajillion, skajillion, optillion, xellion, googillion, fafillion, infillion, zoogol, gazoogol, joogol, gajoogol, gozillion, and jijillion.

I know that "hojillion" is used in Kingdom of Loathing; does that count? (Source: ) --Poochy 07:23, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Brazillian?

 * Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
 * "OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
 * His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
 * Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

This joke was all over usenet and blogs last year, I wonder if it deserves a mention in this article. - Ugliness Man 14:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * It already is mentioned, without the Bush/Rumsfeld specifics. - DavidWBrooks 16:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Transwiki to wikitionary?
I don't think it's a good idea. Comments? &mdash; Arthur Rubin | (talk) 02:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It's nothing but a list of words and their origins. Why do you think transwikiing would a bad idea? —Ruud 02:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Does Wikitionary have such lists? In any case, the list of real large numbers is not much different.  &mdash; Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 08:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It should probably be split up in an entry for each number on wiktionary. Names of large numbers provides some more information than a simple list of names and in which situation it was used (especially if long and short scales was to be merged into it.) —Ruud 22:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

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zillion
i actually thought 'zillion' was official for 10^18. i thought you officially have million, billion, trillion, quadrillion and then zillion. did i really believe in a ghost?· Lygophile   has   spoken  15:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC) nm, i read that somewhere a long time ago. i think it was actually some school book..:/· Lygophile   has   spoken  15:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

A new page
I have created Indefinite and fictitious numbers (note the missing word "large"), which points to Umpteen, and which I would also like to point to this page, perhaps renamed as Zillion. (I know that zillion renaming is an old issue) This came up because of a merge request of Umpteen to this page, except Umpteen isn't necessarily "large." Any thoughts? - DavidWBrooks 16:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)