octodecillions

/ˌɑktoʊdɪˈsɪljənz/
noun
  1. The number represented by 1 followed by 57 zeros (in the American system) or 1 followed by 108 zeros (in the British system); an extremely large, mostly theoretical quantity.
    • The national debt is not measured in octodecillions—that number is far too large.
    • Astronomers sometimes talk about octodecillions of stars in the universe.
    • In math class, we learned that an octodecillion is a 1 with 57 zeros after it.
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