In England they call a septillion a quadrillion. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A quadrillion is equal to 1,000 billion, written as a one followed by 15 zeroes. From Wordnik.com. [MySpace Distributes More Videos than YouTube | Impact Lab] Reference
What macroscopic phenomenon on earth could possibly require the use of the word "quadrillion" to describe it?. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Schweber: Geithner's Dragon] Reference
One of them is for a "quadrillion" dollars, which USA TODAY feels the need to put into context (if that is possible). From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
"quadrillion," and after that, if there is an after that, a "quintillion.". From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
2008 that total annual derivatives trades were quadrillion (a quadrillion is a thousand trillion). From Wordnik.com. [t r u t h o u t] Reference
Let's hope they don't get anywhere near a quadrillion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008] Reference
In Yugoslavia inflation reached five quadrillion percent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008] Reference
Do people realize the value, look at this number, 1.6 quadrillion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2009] Reference
The EIA says energy use will reach 678 quadrillion Btu in 2030. —. From Wordnik.com. [By the Numbers: Energy-efficiency investments would pay huge dividends, says McKinsey & Company report] Reference
In a few years 'time, derivatives could become a quadrillion-dollar market. From Wordnik.com. [600,000,000,000,000?] Reference
Between 2005 and 2007, over a quadrillion dollars of CDOs were underwritten. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Lee: Rob the Poor to Pay the Rich] Reference
The next in line is quadrillion, which sounds like some kind of a 1980s boy band. From Wordnik.com. [A bonfire of taxpayers' cash] Reference
In each of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. From Wordnik.com. [Andrea Robinson: The American Dream, Reimagined] Reference
The total turnover in credit derivatives in 2007 was more than 2.8 quadrillion dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Schweber: Geithner's Dragon] Reference
And it will have the capacity of calculating our nation's debt up to one quadrillion dollars. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008] Reference
The entire film consumes almost a petabyte (1 quadrillion bytes) of data on 3ality's servers. From Wordnik.com. [Listening Post: 'U2 3D' Brings Hyperreal Arena Rock to the Multiplex] Reference
Over the past few years, the United States has annually used about 100 quadrillion Btus of energy. From Wordnik.com. [Patrick Takahashi: Do It Now] Reference
What Is It: A petaflop computer can process one quadrillion floating-point calculations per second. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
In comparison, the United States consumed 98.8 quadrillion Btu (23 percent of world total) in 2003. From Wordnik.com. [Energy profile of the European Union] Reference
At this rate of growth from a single cholera bacillus sixteen quadrillion might arise in a single day. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Wind power, for example grew from 0.51 quadrillion BTUs to 0.7 quadrillion BTUs -- a jump of nearly 40%. From Wordnik.com. [Shifting To A Clean Energy Economy] Reference
It would handle 1 quadrillion operations per second -- that's 15 zeroes -- making it the first "petaflop" computer. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Big Blue Thing] Reference
Measured as British Thermal Units, we're talking about a fall from 99.2 quadrillion in 2008 to 94.6 quadrillion in 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Shifting To A Clean Energy Economy] Reference
They give off resonance waves, each one absolutely unique; there's about one chance in a quadrillion of a duplicate pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
Astronomers estimate the strength of that field to be 1 quadrillion Gauss, or 1 trillion times as strong as our sun's best effort. From Wordnik.com. [Debut Of A Mighty Magnetar] Reference
You heard her right -- her family's plan is to replace this clock, adding two more debt digits capable of counting to a quadrillion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008] Reference
But now, you have the case of someone who says -- what -- three quadrillion million dollars they want to sue the government against. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2008] Reference
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