The name in Chinese of a non-negative integer is formed on groups of 4 digits. The groups are named 萬 (10^4), 億 (10^8), and 兆 (10^12). Powers of 10 greater than or equal to10^16have no commonly accepted names. There are two additional idiomatic rules: ...
centillion centillion The numbers of characters (including spaces and dashes) in the English names (written without trailing "and"s) for the numbers 1, 2, 3, ... are 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 6, 6, 8, 8, 7, 7, 9, 8, 8, 6, 10, 10, ... (OEIS A052360...
). The British names forbillion,trillion, etc. originate from the late 15th century when the French physician and mathematician Nicolas Chuquet (1445-1488) used the Latin prefixes to denote successive powers of onemillion( ) and the suffix "-llion" to refer one million (Rowlett). In more ...