Talk:vigintillion

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vigintillion

--Connel MacKenzie 01:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

1. • 1857-1866 CE, Charles Sanders Peirce, Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Vol. 1 1857-1866, Indiana University Press (June 1981) :

     Now if a premiss rests on a thousand data each of which has one chance in ten of being worthless, the chance of the premiss itself being false is one out of twenty octillion nonillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillion vigintillions. The third consideration is the extreme length of dialectical arguments.

1. • 1996 CE, David Green, Cognitive Science: An Introduction, Blackwell Publishing Professional (April 1996) :

     "Well," you might say, "perhaps we can capture all the vigintillion sentences of example (1) with a pattern like Amy ate X peanutes." Quite a clever move!

1. • 2005 CE, Muthukrishnan, Data Streams: Algorithms And Applications, Now Publishers (31 January 2005) :

     Imagine the first one thousand vigintillion minus one natural numbers arranged in two lists, one in numerical order and the other in lexicographic order.

-- Beobach972 19:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

1. • 2002 CE, Anne Hart, Counseling Anarchists: We All Marry Our Mirrors, Mystery and Suspense Press (March 2002) :

     [W]ithin the wrinkling tissues that rock gently in my sea of misery is the source of a vigintillion lives. Our socialization concentrates on our dependence.

-- Beobach972 20:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

1. • 1998 CE, Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing, University of California Press (April 1998) :

     The colors come, it appears, not simply from the background, but are actually present in the air itself—a vigintillion microscopic particles of dust.

-- Beobach972 01:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

This has 5 citations and is listed in two dictionaries. I'm striking it as rfv-passed. -- Beobach972