sextillion
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- A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 10²¹.
- A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 10³⁶.
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From Classical Latin sextus (“sixth”) + -illion; originally the sixth power of a million, 10³⁶. Compare slightly earlier quintillion, Middle French sixlion (1484) and French sextillion (1765). First attested in 1689 in John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (see the quotation).
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