2. Do you know what comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion. Let’s sing! One for the sun shining in the
The nextnamed numberafter a Trillion is aQuadrillion. You’d need a bank the size of a large city just to store all of that cash! In case you aren’t keeping track, the named number order so far is Million, Billion, Trillion, and Quadrillion. But what comes after a Quadrillion? Keep...
Death Valley's temperatures routinely exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer, and it also has the highest recorded air temperature in the entire world – 134 degrees Fahrenheit. As such, stranded or unwary travelers can easily find themselves in mortal heat danger, and if this happens in...
And because it is broken up into 21 million units (each with eight decimal places, resulting in 2.1 quadrillion sub-units), it is a finite digital commodity. And that’s how Satoshi described it: As a thought experiment, imagine there was a base metal as scarce as gold but with the fol...
It weighs 2.565 quadrillion tonnes, which is equal to the weight of 7.5 billion Empire State Buildings Its mean height/thickness is over 2km, and over 3km at its thickest point. Picture 10 skyscrapers stacked on top of each other—they would still be under the ice. That’s how thick it...
First, let's look at the history of oil production in the U.S., shown in the chart below. The vertical axis is scaled with a unit of power, exajoules (EJ) per year, very close to quadrillion BTUs (quads) per year. To convert from EJ/year to millions of barrels of crude oil ...
) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded. Quadrillion (n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers ...