OXFORD 9000
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octillion

/ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mil cuatrillones
A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10²⁷.
Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.
We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life…
octillón
A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 10⁴⁸.
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