Talk:Indefinite and fictitious large numbers

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Guess what? Gajillion (which should be included in this article) is a real number. Except it's spelled gigillion. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_names_of_large_numbers and do ctrl-f. It's {10}^{{3 * {{10}^{3,000,000,000}}} + 3}. Maybe this should be mentioned?
:Yes, it should.  --Merovingian (t) (c) 13:57, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Do we have a legitimate reference for "gagillion" or "gigillion" actually being used this way?  I can't find this listed on Mathworld.  All is see is this AOL page, where it is mentioned by the author as one of the "names I invented". -- Curps 16:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah.  I guess I may have jumped to conclusions.  --Merovingian (t) (c) 16:28, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Doesn't 'kajillion' come from another way to pronounce 'quadrillion' (another real number)? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 00:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it doesn't. 24.127.224.173 03:30, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

message: It took me awhile to realize that this article was in fact the same one I worked on months ago, which was about all fictional numbers like Zillion. This one just mentions others. Is there any reason to have taken out the part in the first sentence listing other fictional numbers, like gajillion, kajillion, and all the others that I can't remember? Or did some deletion-happy person just come along and take them out? Twilight Realm 05:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know. But I think that some of those examples were made up by one of the past editors of this article. I spot checked a few and at least one got no GHits. Paddles TC 06:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the other examples? 

message: I think "jillion" and kajillion" can probably be sourced so I'm leaving them tagged for the moment. I'm moving these here. They should not be reinserted unless sourced. Dpbsmith (talk) 09:57, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing unsourced examples of "-illion" words 

message: :Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
:"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
:His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
:Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
This joke was all over usenet and blogs last year, I wonder if it deserves a mention in this article. - Ugliness Man 14:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It already is mentioned, without the Bush/Rumsfeld specifics. - DavidWBrooks 16:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brazillian? 

message: I don't think it's a good idea.  Comments?  — Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 02:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's nothing but a list of words and their origins. Why do you think transwikiing would a bad idea? —Ruud 02:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does Wikitionary have such lists?  In any case, the list of real large numbers is not much different.  — Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 08:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It should probably be split up in an entry for each number on wiktionary. Names of large numbers provides some more information than a simple list of names and in which situation it was used (especially if long and short scales was to be merged into it.) —Ruud 22:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transwiki to wikitionary? 

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message: i actually thought 'zillion' was official for 10^18. i thought you officially have million, billion, trillion, quadrillion and then zillion. did i really believe in a ghost?· Lygophile has spoken 15:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  zillion 

message: I have created Indefinite and fictitious numbers (note the missing word "large"), which points to Umpteen, and which I would also like to point to this page, perhaps renamed as Zillion. (I know that zillion renaming is an old issue) This came up because of a merge request of Umpteen to this page, except Umpteen isn't necessarily "large." Any thoughts? - DavidWBrooks 16:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A new page