Talk:quindecillion

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quindecillion

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

It is used on this UNC page (and here, and here). It is also used here. Beobach972 01:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

1. • 1996 CE, Aletta Biersack (editor), Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, University of Michigan Press (January 1996) :

     Thus, the counting system is linked to creation [...] the new people are going to possess the most important human senses -- hearing, sight, and smell -- yet on the sixteenth day, the beginning of the second quindecillion, they begin to act irrationally, polluting the land by indiscriminate defecation.

   • 1978 CE, D. Wallechinsky, I. Wallace, and A. Wallace, The People's Almanac Presents The Book of Lists, Bantam (1978) :

     One supernova, in 1054, was thought by many to herald the biblical Day of Judgment. We have reached an energy level of 10 quindecillion ergs, or 10⁴⁹ ergs.

   • 2003 CE, Magic Dragon Multimedia, Timeline Cosmic Future, (2003) :

     [W]e calculate that there are approximately 1.28556438 Quindecillion arrangements of 34 letters (the same letter can occur more than once).

-- Beobach972 20:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Biersack's usage of it makes me think it is being used as a synonym for fortnight or halfmonth. Certainly not as a long number. 76.71.116.218 22:06, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

I agree that the usage seems inconsistent, and it is not heartening that when I Google the quote, I cannot find evidence for it even existing. I have therefore removed it from the entry. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 22:11, 9 March 2018 (UTC)