Sextillion

A **sextillion** is equal to 1021 in short scale, or 1036 in long scale.

 File:Sextillion Dollars.jpg   It is 22 digits long in short scale, or 37 digits long in long scale.

Written out in decimal form sextillion (in the short scale) is:

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In long scale:

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In the long scale, 1021 is called trilliard, which is commonly used in France and Germany.

This number is also called **heptillion** in Russ Rowlett's Greek-based naming system.

Aarex Tiaokhiao gave the name **heptillion**, referring to the value of this number.

It is the smallest -illion number whose successor isn't squarefree.

## Decimal

* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - short scale
* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - long scale

## Examples

* The volume of the earth is about 1.085 sextillion cubic meters.
* The earth has a mass of about 5.98 sextillion metric tons.
* There are about 6 sextillion cups of water in all the oceans of the world.
* The distance between one end of the universe and the other may be about 87.9 sextillion miles or 141 sextillion kilometers.
* You could fit 615 earths in a flat layer with an area of one sextillion square centimeters.
* The SI prefix zetta- multiplies by one short-scale sextillion.

## As a banknote denomination

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Only the Template:W had banknotes with this number in the denomination, but they were never issued; in fact, it was the highest banknote denomination ever printed.

## Sources

1. ↑ Sextillion at Wolfram MathWorld
2. ↑ Names for Large Numbers
3. ↑ Aarex Tiaokhiao's illion numbers
4. ↑ [1]
5. ↑ 2.1.5 - Larger Numbers in Science - Large Numbers by Sbiis Saibian
6. ↑ Almost Infinite

## See also

* sextyllion

Standard -illion numbers 103n + 3 (106n)

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