Nicolas Chuquet

Nicolas Chuquet (1445 - 1488)J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Nicolas Chuquet - MacTutor. was a French mathematician and one of the earliest Googologists. In terms of Googology, he's most notable for establishing the -illion suffix in 1484 with his unpublished book Triparty en la science des nombres.Moss B., Hay C., Flegg G. (1985) Nicolas Chuquet — The Man and His Manuscript. In: Flegg G., Hay C., Moss B. (eds) Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician. Springer, Dordrecht. He initially went uncredited for this, having had his work plagiarized in 1520 and not being rediscovered until 1880.Nicolas Chuquet on Wikipedia
== Triparty ==
In Triparty en la science des nombres covers arithmetic and algebra, but had little influence on the development of mathematics since it was lost until Aristide Marre rediscovered it and published it in 1880. The first part deals with arithmetic, the second part deals with extraction of roots, and the third part deals with algebra. The first part is divided into 4 chapters, and in the first chapter, Chuquet wroteThe entirety of Nicolas Chuquet's text concerning the systematic of zillions, worked out in the very first chapter of his Triparty (1484) 
florencetime.net (archived on 28 Sep 2007)Robert Munafo, Origins of the Chuquet Number Names
Ou qui veut le premier point peult signiffier million Le second point byllion Le tiers poit tryllion Le quart quadrillion Le cinqe quyllion Le sixe sixlion Le sept.e septyllion Le huyte ottyllion Le neufe nonyllion et ainsi des ault's se plus oultre on vouloit pceder. Item lon doit savoir que ung million vault mille milliers de unitez, et ung byllion vault mille milliers de millions, et [ung] tryllion vault mille milliers de byllions, et ung quadrillion vault mille milliers de tryllions et ainsi des aultres : Et de ce en est pose ung exemple nombre divise et punctoye ainsi que devant est dit, tout lequel nombre monte 745324 tryllions 804300 byllions 700023 millions 654321. Exemple : 745324'8043000'700023'654321 ...
which is translated as
Or if you prefer the first mark can signify million, the second mark byllion, the third mark tryllion, the fourth quadrillion, the fifth quyillion, the sixth sixlion, the seventh septyllion, the eighth ottyllion, the ninth nonyllion and so on with others as far as you wish to go. Item: one must know that a million is worth thousand thousands of units, and a byllion is worth thousand thousands of millions, and a tryllion is worth thousand thousands of byllions, and a quadrillion is worth thousand thousands of tryllions and so on for the others: And from this an example number divided and punctuated as before is shown, all which number amounts 745324 tryllions 804300 byllions 700023 millions 654321. Example: 745324'8043000'700023'654321
Therefore, following names were defined.
* million = 106
* byllion = 1012
* tryllion = 1018
* quadrillion = 1024
* quyllion = 1030
* sixlion = 1036
* septyllion = 1042
* ottyllion = 1048
* nonyllion = 1054
This is the beginning of long scale system, which is currently used in French, German and other languages and countries. Short scale was developed in America long after this book was written, and became popularized in English.
Before this book was written in 1484, the word million was popularly used in French since late 13th century,Online etymology dictionary, millionOlivier Miakinen, Grands nombres : 1270-1961, sept siècles d'histoire in Écriture des nombres en français. 1 May 2004 and the words bymillion = 1012 and trimillion = 1018 were recorded in 1475 in a manuscript of .Bibliothèque St Geneviève, Paris, MS Français 3143 - original French manuscript by Jehan AdamJehan Adam, Traicté en arismetique pour la practique par gectouers… Parchemin. XVe siècle (1475).Lynn Thorndike, "The Arithmetic of Jehan Adam, A.D. 1475," Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century
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