Eleventy-Zillion: Difference between revisions

''[Audience Gasps]''

'''Auctioneer''': ''That's not a real number, sir.''

 

When your notation isn't enough, it's better to make up new numbers on the spot.

 

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* ''[[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]'':

** In [[Carl Barks]]'s "Some Heir Over The Rainbow," Scrooge's fortune is given as nine fantasticatillion, four billion-jillion, centrifugalillion dollars [[Ludicrous Precision|and sixteen cents]].

'''A:''' Nine trillion multipadillion, six hundred and eighty-six squadrificillion, fifty octodecimadillion, eight hundred and sixty-three centrifipillion, nine hundred and forty overplusillion, six hundred and five duplicatillion, thirty-three impossibadillion, seven hundred and ninety-one compounded ultrafatillion, three hundred and forty super trillion, fifty-nine duper dillion, twenty-nine billion, seven hundred and fifty million, four hundred and six thousand, five hundred and thirty-three drops. }}

*** An easier answer would be 3, if you consider a "drop" is also a smaller fall within a waterfall.

 

== Fan Works ==

'''Giles''': A billion ''is'' a real number, sir.

'''Tarukune''': I've just been informed that a billion is a real number. }}

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Pee-wee's Big Adventure]]'': "I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world - not for a hundred million billion ''trillion'' dollars!" The end result is a one with 29 zeroes after it.

* In the beginning of ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', the wanted poster of Mr. Potato Head shows the "$50 bzillion" reward. Of course, the drawing was done by a six year old boy.

 

== Jokes ==

* ''Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning. He told Bush that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq. To everyone's amazement, all of the colour ran from Bush's face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost whimpering. Finally, he composed himself and asked Rumsfeld, "Just exactly how many is a brazillion?"''

 

== Literature ==

* From ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'':

{{quote|"Today is my 111th birthday: I am eleventy-one today!"}}

** Also the implications that since hobbits live longer than humans, uneventfully going over a hundred, they would need handier terms for such ages.

*** Bilbo's life was artificially lengthened by the ring, so he had lived much longer than a normal hobbit.

* In ''[[Life the Universe And Everything]]'', the Krikkit Wars apparently resulted in two grillion casualties.

{{quote|"Bet you a million trillion zillion dollars you can't turn that bush into a pumpkin," said the child.

...

** In ''Beezus and Ramona'', when she's five, she weighs herself and comes up with "fifty-eleven pounds."

 

* ''[[The Cosby Show]]''

** "It's All in the Game"

''3 times 5 is elevendy''

''3 times 2 is I dunno'' }}

 

== Music ==

{{quote|"The game is a light bulb with eleventy-million volts"}}

* [[Usher]]'s "Burn" has this:

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

** When Calvin asks Hobbes for help with his math homework, Hobbes notes that it requires calculus and imaginary numbers, "You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve, and all those." ([[wikipedia:Imaginary number|Imaginary numbers]], by the way, are a real mathematical concept, but not the way Hobbes puts it.)

* ''Dilbert'' has "frooglepoopillion".

 

== Tropes ==

* [[Zillion-Dollar Bill]] - [[Self Explanatory]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* One selling point of ''[[Borderlands]]'' was its "87 bazillion" guns (actually creations courtesy of a parts generator), which [[Fan Dumb]] has tried to explain as both a finite ''or'' an infinite number of guns, depending on who you ask.

** The actual number of weapon combinations is quite high, but doesn't even come close to the "billion" moniker.

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209161611/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3251 Uncle Sam will sell Lil' Evil the warhead for 900 billion jillion dollars.]

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Warhammer of Zillyhoo]] costs "ONE ZILLION" grist to [[Item Crafting|alchemize]]. Although it may also mean it costs ONE unit of ZILLION-type grist ([[Unobtainium|which never appeared in the comic so far]]).

 

== Web Original ==

* The [[Urban Dictionary]] has [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Eleventy%20Billion Eleventy Billion], from the ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' example.

* [[Weebl and Bob|Insanity Prawn Boy]] likes to use the number "fifty-twelve". Incidentally, he lives in apartment 512.

* [[Played With]] in a January 15, 2006 headline on [[Fark|Fark.com]]:

{{quote|''Brazilian astronauts to visit Space Station. [[George W. Bush|Bush]] asks how they'll fit that many up there.''}}

 

== Western Animation ==

* [[DuckTales (1987)|Scrooge McDuck]] earns these amounts daily. His total fortune is given [https://web.archive.org/web/20120414195635/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?s=date&loc=D91308 here] as Five multiplujillion, nine impossibidillion, seven fantasticatrillion dollars and seventeen cents.

** In the Dutch versions, his inane amounts always end at "...and sixteen cents" instead. List your country too if it deviates!

* ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'' (1969)

{{quote|'''[[Santa Claus]]:''' Now you go home and write "I am very sorry for what I did to Frosty" 100 zillion times.}}

* In one episode of ''[[Doug]]'', the titular character is imagining [[Curb Stomp Battle|an utterly one-sided baseball game.]] When he asks Skeeter for the score, his bud replies, "A bajillion to nothing."

* In one episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', when Fry was bidding against [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Mom]] for the last can of anchovies on Earth:

'''Crowd:''' ''(gasps)''

'''Auctioneer:''' Sir, that's not a number.

'''Dodgers:''' Is that a lot?

'''Dr. IQ High:''' It's so much money that we actually had to make up a number and multiply it by six just to count it. }}

* In the ''[[Dennis the Menace (animation)|Dennis the Menace]]'' cartoon, Dennis and Joey go to watch a movie about a high-tech submarine; when Joey asks how much a submarine like that must cost, Dennis says it must be "at least eleventy-seven zillion dollars!" This is [[Brick Joke| later "confirmed" by one of the characters]] in the movie when he has an [[Imagine Spot]] with him as the ship's captain.

 

== Real Life ==

* The technical name for a googol, if you were to [[wikipedia:Names of large numbers|extrapolate from the usual naming convention]], would be "ten duotrigintillion", or "ten thousand sexdecillion" on [[wikipedia:Long and short scales|the long scale (where a billion equals one million millions)]], or we could just say 10^100 and call it a day.

** Hilariously, the term was supposedly coined by mathematician Edward Kasner's young nephew upon being asked for a large number.

** If we were to use the normal notation, we'd need a new universe to write it, as this one is entirely too small. For a time it was the largest number ever used seriously in a maths proof, though it's since lost this title to other numbers.

* There is an [https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014253/http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7469 entire thread on the XKCD forums] dedicated to creating ever larger and larger numbers. After about 5 pages of this, the numbers being thrown around make Graham's Number seem like a speck of dust in comparison. After another 10 pages... let's just say that the numbers are so large that the math to ''understand'' these numbers gets progressively harder and harder to understand.

 

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