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UK
/kwɒdɹˈɪliən/
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NOUN
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the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros
in England they call a septillion a quadrillion - the number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros
How To Use quadrillion In A Sentence
- I'm sure they'd have fancy statistics saying that this added up to a quadrillion dollars in lost revenue.
- Translated into arithmetical terms, the result is 79 octillion, 228 septillion, 162 sextillion, 514 quintillion, 270 quadrillion with 15 zeros attached; that is 79,228,162,270,000,000,000,000,000.
- By comparison, on a sunny day the human eye is flooded by about 10 quadrillion photons per second.
- The spacecraft's EKG readings are so weak that the signal striking NASA's global network of deep-space antennas is only 10-16 watts — or one part in 10 quadrillion. A Space in Time
- IBM's new supercomputer, Blue Gene, may do close to one quadrillion multiplications per second.
- IBM's new supercomputer, Blue Gene, may do close to one quadrillion multiplications per second.
- The U.S. transportation sector currently consumes 38 quadrillion BTU's of energy annually.
- In the last decades of the 20c, however, the North American use has become universal, providing the set million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion.
- $1.14 quadrillion (a quadrillion is a thousand trillion). OpEdNews
- The whole financial engineering industry is today a market with a notional value of approximately $1 quadrillion.