Crossword-Solution: DECILLION
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| Decillion | n. | According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.] |
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| 1 followed by 33 zeros. | 1 answer |
| One followed by 33 zeros | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DECILLION (5)
The population of the world, therefore, would have been 18,932,139,737,991 decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion; or 18,932,139,737,991 vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion.
Three million tons of matter go into that colossal furnace every second of time, and out of that comes two and a half decillion ergs of energy.
DECILLION, de-sil'yun, _n._ a million raised to the tenth power: in the French and American notation, a thousand raised to the eleventh power.
See says, "We may calculate from the preponderance of small bodies actually found in the solar system--eight principal planets, twenty-five satellites (besides our moon), and 625 asteroids--that the chances of a nebula devoid of hydrostatic pressure producing small bodies is about 2{658} to 1, or a decillion decillion (10{66}){6} to the sixth power, to unity.
This figure is so very large that we shall content ourselves with illustrating a decillion decillion, and for this purpose we avail ourselves of a method employed by ARCHIMEDES to illustrate his system of enumeration.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–2011).