Talk:novemdecillion

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--Connel MacKenzie 01:03, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This (Google archive here) uses the word : ‘The odds that one of the Cowboys linebacking corps reads this blog is one in... oh, let’s use a really big number... a novemdecillion’.
The article ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’, by James C. Mayer, which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’ (January, 2002 CE), uses the word. The sentence is : ‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’. -- Beobach972 18:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This page says that ‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’. -- Beobach972 19:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This says : ‘Go up to 60 zeros -- that's a novemdecillion -- and you can measure the volume of the galaxy in cubic inches [...]’. -- Beobach972 19:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Conway Wechsler notation spells it novendecillion. Chasrob (talk) 04:46, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]