Novemdecillion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪljÉ™n

Origin

From Latin novemdecim, nineteen.

Cardinal numeral

1. (US; modern British & Australian, Long and short scales, rare) 10

• 1962, Jerry D. Lewis, Crusade against crime, Random House, page 314It is one chance in a novemdecillion. For those who like to be precise, that exact statistic is one chance in 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,676,069,604,401,795,301,376.
• 2010, SB Seymore, Rethinking Novelty in Patent Law
• 1998, Sean O'Shea, Meryl A. Walker, The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story, ISBN 0893342734, page 66It has the shape of a disk, and is ten to the fifty-ninth power yojanas in circumference, a number called a novemdecillion, and is 1,600,000 yojanas deep.
• 2001, John Flanagan, How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 15 July 2001 http://starbulletin.com/2001/07/15/editorial/flanagan.htmlGo up to 60 zeros -- that's a novemdecillion -- and you can measure the volume of the galaxy in cubic inches ....
• 2011, Sarah Harding, Niguma, Lady of Illusion, page 286grangs med, literally “without count,” is also said to indicate the number ten to the fiftieth or sixtieth power (novemdecillion). Still less than a googol!
1. (dated British & Australian, Long and short scales, rare) 10

1. A very large number
• 2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications http://www.abarim-publications.com/JessicaRabbitExplains.html‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’.
• 2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it
  And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’.
• http://www.knowyourdallascowboys.com/?p=601 (http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:OFegiwwAB7oJ:faircatch.net/player/terrell_owens+novemdecillion&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=134)‘The odds that one of the Cowboys linebacking corps reads this blog is one in... oh, let’s use a really big number... a novemdecillion’.