eleventy

From eleven + -ty, from Old English hundendleftiġ (also spelled hund-endleofantiġ, hund-endlyftiġ, and hund-ælleftiġ). See twelfty for more. Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc.

[Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday
[…]
“Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!”

1955 (1974), JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, pages 43, 54:

without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan

1980, Janet Caudle, State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979, page 149:

Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc.]

2007, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, page 174:

No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong.

May 1921, Margaret Wilson, “A Little Boy's Utopia”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 670:

People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1.

2005, Robert M Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals, page 19:

According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.

2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian:

(colloquial) An indefinite large number.


four hundred

/ˈfɔːɹ ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/

The cardinal number occurring after three hundred ninety-nine and before four hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 400.


six hundred

The cardinal number occurring after five hundred ninety-nine and before six hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 600.


seven hundred

The cardinal number occurring after six hundred ninety-nine and before seven hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 700.


eight hundred

The cardinal number occurring after seven hundred ninety-nine and before eight hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 800.


nine hundred

The cardinal number occurring after eight hundred ninety-nine and before nine hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 900. Ordinal: nine-hundredth.


thirteen hundred

The start of the fourteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 13:00.


fourteen hundred

The start of the fifteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 14:00.


fifteen hundred

1500 hours, the start of the sixteenth hour of the day (3 pm).


sixteen hundred

The start of the seventeenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 16:00.

one thousand six hundred
one thousand six hundred


seventeen hundred

The start of the eighteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 17:00.


eighteen hundred

The start of the nineteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 18:00.


nineteen hundred

The start of the twentieth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 19:00.

one thousand nine hundred
one thousand nine hundred


twenty-one hundred

The start of the twenty-second hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 21:00.


twenty-two hundred

The start of the twenty-third hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 22:00.


twenty-three hundred

The start of the last hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 23:00.


do one

The cardinal number occurring after do and before do two in a duodecimal system. Written 11, decimal value 13.


fourscore

four score (alternative)
four-score (alternative)

Thou ſtick'ſt a dagger in me, I ſhall neuer ſee my gold againe, foureſcore ducats at aſitting, foureſcore ducats.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 173:

Euen thoſe that were numbꝛed of them, were eight thouſand, and fiue hundꝛed, and foureſcoꝛe.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 4:48:

“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore?—and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 353:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 1:

Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.

1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts:

[…] I know every life is equally sacred, but that is a thought, another thought, I mean, all these valuable people who aren’t going to have their normal fourscore as it is now, these people aren’t going to be replaced, and it’s such a loss to the culture.

1986 November 24, Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, in The New Yorker:

(idiomatic) A full-length life, reckoned as eighty years.


yan

Along with ane and yen, a Cumbrian and Northumbrian form of one, from the Old English ān. An example is "yan, twee, tree, fower" for "one, two, three, four".


yan

From Brythonic numerals, with influence from Old English ān or modern Northern English yan or Northern English yen.

(Cumbria) One in Cumbrian sheep counting rhyme.


fivescore

Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, I have a dream)


fourty

[I]t is also voted and hereby to be understood that we have concluded to pay yearly or per annum one hundred and fourty pounds Salary[…]

1719—1762, George Waldo Browne, editor, Early Records of Londonderry, Windham, and Derry, N. H., published 1908:

This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

2014 January 4, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:


fortysomething

(colloquial) An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive).


eleventeen

Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen.

"He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year."

Trust me, I've checked every angle and analyzed a zillion options eleventeen different ways.

2001, Rick D. Ellison, Gamble to Win: Craps:

I can make the locals laugh at my attempts in a few other languages, such as Swedish, but I'm certainly not like the average European who seems to speak "eleventeen" languages

2004, Brooks Peterson, Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures:

(colloquial) A relatively large number, not precisely specified.

Hobbes: Ooh, that's a tricky one. You have to use calculus and imaginary numbers for this.
Calvin: Imaginary numbers?!
Hobbes: You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve, all those.

1988 January 6, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:


twelve hundred

The number 1200; one thousand two hundred

The start of the thirteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock, i.e. 12:00, which generally coincides with noon in local time.


one hundred million

We shall not forget the one hundred million victims of Communism: to them we pray, respect, and pay tributes for.


four-and-twenty

Ouer the firſt companie the firſt month Ieſboam was chiefe the ſonne of Zabdiel, and vnder him foure and twentie thouſand.

1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 1 Paralipomenon 27:2, page 863:

Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys,/ Baked in a Pye.

1744, Sing a Song of Sixpence, in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (earliest known written version)

"He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June,[...]"

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 56:

Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.

2005 June 20, “My Party This Way | Faustus”, in The Guardian:


four and twenty

And this courſe was uſed by the Four and twenty Jurators in Kent in Rumney Marſh, who always upon their Oaths ſet down every particular mans ground in certain, and their juſt quantities, and accordingly were the parties ſeverally taxed.

1622 August, Robert Callis, The Reading of That Famous and Learned Gentleman, Robert Callis Esq; Sergeant at Law, upon the Statute of 23 H. 8. Cap. 5. of Sewers: As It Was Delivered by Him at Grays-Inn, in August, 1622, London: […] William Leak, published 1647, page 97:

Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys, / Baked in a Pye.

Enter TOBIAS⸺in Petticoats. Tob. O dear, dear me, what a pickle am I in—bepetticoated—bewigged—bebearded—and belaughed at by the whole houſe⸺I ſhall die with the ſweating ſickneſs—in four and twenty hours I ſhall be dry as a ſqueezed ſpunge—And all this do I endure for the ſake of that dear hard-hearted creature—ſhe’ll break my heart (wiping his eyes)—if I could drive her out of my thoughts, this moment would I quit this unnatural houſe—Oh, hoh (blubbering).

1791, William Roberts, The Fugitives: A Comedy, Warrington: […] W. Eyres, for John Stockdale, act II, page 40:

Four and twenty hours had never passed before, since August began, without bringing them together in some way or other.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 39:


(in the context of a number sign ⠼) The digit 2.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 3.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 4.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 5.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 6.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 7.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 8.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 9.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 0.


twelfty

From twelve + -ty, from Old English hundtwelftiġ. Compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatig, hundniġontiġ and hundtēontiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety and one hundred, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system. This hund was used for counting higher decades, and eventually became the root of hundred. Hund originally meant 120 (now called a long hundred or great hundred, and preserved in the term hundredweight), but was used to translate multiples of Latin centum (“100”), and eventually picked up that value when used in isolation as well.

Thirty-six from a hundred and twenty-nine? [twelvety-nine.]

1854, Thomas H. Palmer, Arithmetic, Oral and Written, page 36:

The twelfty-six [126] weeks' strike taught us the value of being organized

1922, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Report and Proceedings of the Convention, page 1:

(nonstandard) One hundred (and) twenty; 120.


hundred thousand

head

hundred thousand (plural hundred thousands)

Madame Chevalier, who with a word could have caused her aged mother to have been brought in triumph to Petersburg, and supported there in ease and abundance; who reckoned her fortune by hundred thousands of rubles, sent her indigent parent two hundred rubles.

1802, Augustus von Kotzebue, translated by Benjamin Beresford, The Most Remarkable Year in the Life of Augustus von Kotzebue; […], volume III, London: […] [F]or Richard Phillips, […] [b]y T[homas] Gillet, […], →OCLC, page 109:

Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.

1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-487:

mahtlāctli omōnxiquipilli īpan mahtlāctzontli


threety

He hath threety-six votes of the greatest barrons of the shyre to ninteen very mean ones, wherof syv have no right to vote; there is not so much as doubt of that matter heir.

1690, Letters and state papers chiefly addressed to George, Earl of Mellville

Kecept Paid to Andrew Marshall Smith in Gorballs for Threety howes and tuo Axes at 12"1 p. pss. p.

1696-1707, Papers relating to the ships and voyages of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies

To James Jaffray for threety young plantin bought at Monimusk at 3/4 per piece.

… who made shose of Neill Campbell, servitor to Collin Campbell younger of Glendarule, to be his clark compeared personally Archibald McKellar now in Glenlean of the age of threety years …

1705-1742, The Justiciary Records of Argyll and the Isles

(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland, obsolete or nonstandard) Thirty.


twoty

The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company."

1872, “Reminiscences of the Army”, in The Cape monthly magazine, volume 5, page 302:


fiveteen

Taken in clap-nets of fiveteen yards length.

‘I declared that 5 volumes could never be attacked! – but since I begun, I have read it 3 Times.’ ‘O terrible!’ cried I, – ‘to make them fiveteen! – ’

1783, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 200:


fiddy

I need 'bout three fitty [$3.50].

(nonstandard, pronunciation spelling) Alternative form of fifty.


half a dozen

Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”

1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:

The good news is that £800 million is allocated to new rolling stock, £200m for stations (including six new ones), and a further £736m to transform the Valley Lines, a network of half-a-dozen services that run up the valleys from Cardiff.

2019 December 18, Christian Wolmar, “Overdue investment and a better deal for Welsh railways”, in Rail, page 54:


hunnit

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


tethera

From Brythonic numerals, extended from a root *tri.

(Cumbria) three in Celtic sheep counting


fift

With Fiſh repleniſht, and the Aire with Fowle, / Ev’ning and Morn solemniz’d the Fift day, / The Sixt, and of Creation laſt arose[…]

1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_VII), Samuel Simmons, lines 447–449:


tyan

From Brythonic numerals, from an assumed *dwau, from Proto-Brythonic *dọw.

(Cumbria) Two in Cumbrian sheep counting.


methera

From Brythonic numerals. Compare to Welsh mhedwerydd, nasal mutation of pedwerydd.

(Cumbria) four in sheep counting of Northern England.


sethera

From Brythonic numerals, extended from a root *hweh.

(Cumbria) six in Cumbrian sheep counting


lethera

From Brythonic numerals, from a mutation of an assumed *sext.

(Cumbria) seven in Cumbrian sheep counting


hovera

From Brythonic/Cumbric numerals, from an assumed *(h)oxt. Compare hwyth, the h-mutation of the Welsh form.

(Cumbria) Eight in Cumbrian sheep counting.


dovera

From Cumbric numerals, from an assumed Proto-Brythonic *naw (“nine”). For the initial consonant compare Lithuanian devyni and Proto-Slavic *devętь (“nine”).

(Cumbria) nine in Cumbrian sheep counting


yan-a-dick

From Cumbric *ün gwar ðeg. Literally yan a (and) dick and c.f. Compare Welsh un ar ddeg.

(Cumbria) eleven in Cumbrian sheep counting


tyan-a-dick

From Brythonic numerals. Literally tyan a (“and”) dick.

(Cumbria) Twelve in Cumbrian sheep counting.


tethera-a-dick

From Brythonic numerals. Literally tethera a (and) dick.

(Cumbria) thirteen in Cumbrian sheep counting


methera-a-dick

From Brythonic numerals. Literally methera (four) a (and) dick (ten).

(Cumbria) fourteen in Cumbrian sheep counting


bumfit

From Brythonic numerals (compare Welsh pymtheg), eventually from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp (“five”) + *deg (“ten”).

(Cumbria) Fifteen in Cumbrian sheep counting.


yan-a-bumfit

From Brythonic numerals. Literally yan a (and) bumfit.

(Cumbria) Sixteen in Cumbrian sheep counting.


tyan-a-bumfit

From Brythonic numerals. Literally tyan a (and) bumfit.

(Cumbria) Seventeen in Cumbrian sheep counting.


tethera-a-bumfit

(Cumbria) eighteen in Cumbrian sheep counting


methera-bumfit

From Brythonic, likely Cumbric, numerals. Literally an amalgamation of methera and bumfit.

(Cumbria) nineteen in Cumbrian sheep counting


giggot

From Brythonic numerals, from an assumed *gwigent, from Proto-Brythonic *ʉgėnt, from Proto-Celtic *wikantī.

(Cumbria) twenty in Cumbrian sheep counting


mether

From Cumbric numerals; compare Welsh mhedwar, the nasal mutation of pedwar (“four”).

(dialect) Four in the old counting system of Northern England.


nine thousand

cardinal number between eight thousand nine hundred ninety nine and nine thousand and one


seven thousand

cardinal number between six thousand nine hundred and ninety nine and seven thousand and one


six thousand

cardinal number between five thousand nine hundred and ninety nine and six thousand and one


four thousand

cardinal number between three thousand nine hundred and ninety nine and four thousand and one


three thousand

cardinal number between two thousand nine hundred and ninety nine and three thousand and one


fortyish

One problem it drops in our laps is to have developed all fortyish of its species within our temperate area, from the Falklands to the central temperate Andes.

1993, Quarterly bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society, volumes 61-62, Alpine Garden Society (Great Britain), page 348:

A great many black men are Mark Lawrence's age (fortyish), height (six-two-ish), weight (one-seventy-ish), and complexion (a reddish medium brown) that hints of a childhood of freckles and umber-red hair

2003, Randall Robinson, The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other:

In my day, more often than not, you had to break rank to join the very few fortyish-aged women (renegades) promoted

2004, Jean Lau Chin, The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination, page 46:

The day was cloudy, and the temperature was about fortyish.

2006, Harold F. Kratch, One Soldier's Memories, page 109:


seventysomething

(colloquial) An indeterminate value between 70 (inclusive) and 80 (exclusive).


fiftysomething

(colloquial) An indeterminate value between 50 (inclusive) and 60 (exclusive).


foure

The articles whereof were theſe: That ſuch as were in debt, ſhould be cleered of all their debts, and that the landes alſo ſhould be diuided into equall partes: so that from the valley of Pallena vnto mount Taugetus, and vnto the cities of Malea, and Selasia, there ſhould be foure thowſand fiue hundred partes,[…]

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:


five-and-twenty

Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal. The great German watering-place is one of the prettiest nooks in Europe, and of a summer evening in the gaming days, five-and-twenty years ago, it was one of the most brilliant scenes.

1879, Henry James, chapter III, in Confidence, London: Chatto & Windus:


trilliard

From French trilliard, equivalent to tri- (“three”) + -illiard.

We read of milliards, and even trilliards, of roubles, marks, francs and dollars, but we do not comprehend them in the sense of visualising and retaining a clear-cut picture of what the figures really imply.

1922, Industrial Peace, volume 10, London: St. Catherine Press, page 167:

2003, François Cardarelli, Column in a table, Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights, and Measures: Their SI Equivalences and Origins,
Power of ten ...UK, France (n rule) million billion billiard trillion trilliard

(UK, Australia, dated, rare) One thousand long scale trillions, or one short scale sextillion; equal to 10²¹ (1 followed by twenty-one 0s).

triiliardo

1021, a thousand million million million (a billion trillion) — see also sextillion


throtteen

From Middle English throttene, þreottene, from Old English þrēottȳne, þrēotīne, þrēotīene. More at thirteen.

"Mary Baldwyn, daughter of Richard Baldwyn of Rough Lee, aged—How old was she, sexton?" "Throtteen," replied the man

1848, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches:


tway

From Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy.

Guyons angry blade so fierce did play
 On th'others helmet, which as Titan shone,
 That quite it cloue his plumed crest in tway,
 And bared all his head vnto the bone […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(dialectal, obsolete in virtually all other forms) Two.


onety-one

From one + -ty + one, modelled after twenty-two, thirty-three, etc.

I know when that was. One thousand one hundred and onety-one !

1899, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Wolves and the Lamb, page 11:


teenty

* ten + -ty
Perhaps from Old English hundtēontiġ (compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatiġ, hundniġontiġ, hundendleftiġ, and hundtwelftiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.

Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.

Krieger, Wendy (2008 September 15 (last accessed)) “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

(nonstandard) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.


three hundred

/ˈθɹiː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/

/ˈθɹiː ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/

The cardinal number occurring after two hundred ninety-nine and before three hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 300.


twenny

Ah, ya ain't worried bouta a lousy twenny cents are ya? Mean to say, it ain't gonna bust ya is it? Ah, Missa Jake, price on board say five dollah twenny. Price not go down. When it does, we change up on board.

He's got rait good trainers, he buys 'is own trainers, 'is got a paper rahnd, he gets twenny-odd quid a week, I think he gets twenny three, he 'as three quid an' his Mum teks twenny quid off'im.

2000, Simon J. Charlesworth, A phenomenology of working class experience, page 128:

He paid me twenny bucks ta swap out with him.
Twenny bucks? That wuzz a lot.

2006, Les Standiford, Miami Noir, page 264:


gro

The cardinal number occurring after el do el (↋↋) and before gro one (101) in a duodecimal system. Written 100, decimal value 144.


MCC

Twelve hundred (1200) in Roman numerals.


unvigintillion

Previous: vigintillion: short scale 1063

(US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁶⁶.

modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale

(dated British & Australian, long scale) 10¹²⁶.

dated British & Australian; long scale; dated British & Australian; long scale


fitty

I need 'bout three dollars and fitty cents.

(nonstandard, pronunciation spelling) Alternative form of fifty.


quadrilliard

From French quadrilliard, equivalent to quadri- + -illiard.

Ugh. An Australian should use Australian numbers (the same as British), not American. 10^27 is 1,000 quadrillion (or a quadrilliard). An octillion would be 10^48.

2002 June 19, bruce, “Re: Australians did it again! (?)”, in alt.fan.robert-jordan (Usenet), message-ID <cs9qea.as3.ln@ID-92747.user.dfncis.de>:

Your estimation was quite accurate. In a body of 75 kg of water, there are roughly 2.5 x 10^28. That's 25 octillion (US) or 25 quadrilliard (EU).

2003 December 3, arie, “Re: Why Women "Test" Men, and What Men can Do About It”, in alt.support.loneliness (Usenet), message-ID <bqkc2m$dg9$1@news.tudelft.nl>:

There are weak keys in the sense that their use by foisting chosen plaintexts can be proved, which could be interesting for chip cards with a ‘burnt-in key’. First of all, however, these keys can be easily avoided—one only needs to XOR all subkeys with the hexadecimal number 0x0dae—and second, the probability that such a key can be caught is 2⁻⁹⁶; that is about one out of 10²⁹ randomly selected keys (this number even has a name: 100 quadrilliards).

2007, Reinhard Wobst, “Life After DES: New Methods, New Attacks”, in Angelika Shafir, transl., Cryptology Unlocked, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, section 3 (IDEA: A Special-Class Algoritmh), subsection 5 (Cryptanalyzing IDEA), page 239:

In the European system, 10⁹ is a milliard, 10¹² is a billion, 10¹⁵ is a billiard, 10¹⁸ is a trillion, 10²¹ is a trilliard, 10²⁴ is a quadrillion, and 10²⁷ is a quadrilliard. To avoid confusion in expressing these numbers, the SI prefixes are preferred.

2014 May 16, Lela Buckingham, “Chapter 3: Systems of Measurement”, in Fundamental Laboratory Mathematics: Required Calculations for the Medical Laboratory Professional, Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, →ISBN, Box 3-3: Terms for Large Numbers, page 47:

A thousand million million million million: 1 followed by twenty-seven zeros, 10²⁷.

Previous: quadrillion. Next: quintillion.


quintilliard

From French quintilliard, equivalent to quint- + -illiard.

A second computator, taking up the inquiry at the point at which it has been left by the first proposer of the query, has shown that the number of “ascendants” increasing in geometrical ratio with each generation back, the number of forbears computed to the 37th degree, exceeds the total population of the earth from that time downwards; while, counted up to half the time from Adam, we come to a number of quintilliards probably large enough to people all the planets of our system; proving, according to the judicious reflection of this novel inquirer, that the entire human race must have had the same grandfathers and grandmothers over and over again, and that, consequently, so far from priding themselves on imaginary superiority of pedigree, all men should regard one another as cousins.

1883 December 29, “Stella” (correspondent), “Continental Gossip”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 14,276, Sydney, N.S.W., page 6, column 2:

With the Triple DES implementation of DES, there are 5 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 (5.1 quintilliard) or more possible encryption keys that can be used.

2000 September 1, Furqan Syed, “Children of DES: A Look at the Advanced Encryption Standard”, in Network Security, →DOI, pages 11–12:

Taking into account practical implications, storing all responses would occupy 2.3 × 10⁵⁰ bits with an average of 10 kb per response. It would take several quintilliard years on a Gigabit internet connection to transfer everything without considering possible network instabilities and congestion.

2019, Pierre Laperdrix, Gildas Avoine, Benoit Baudry, Nick Nikiforakis, “Morellian Analysis for Browsers: Making Web Authentication Stronger with Canvas Fingerprinting”, in Roberto Perdisci, Clémentine Maurice, Giorgio Giacinto, Magnus Almgren, editors, Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 16th International Conference, DIMVA 2019; Gothenburg, Sweden, June 19–20, 2019; Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 58:

A thousand million million million million million: 1 followed by thirty-three zeros, 10³³.

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thretty

As ye were nine year less than thretty, / Sweet ane an' twenty!

1785, Robert Burns, Epistle to J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard:


sev

One-two-three-four-five-six-sev-one.

(music) the seventh beat or pulse of a measure, spoken.


thretteen

(obsolete or archaic in Scotland) thirteen


seaven

I ſaw the Trophies of Marius cut anciently in ſtone in honour of that great General, who from a common ſoldier came by his vertue, to be ſeaven times Conſul.

1670, Richard Lassels, A Compleat Iovrney Through Italy, page 139:


eightysomething

There in the doorway stood an eightysomething Las Vegas showgirl.

2006, Laura Levine, The PMS Murder, page 52:

(colloquial) An indeterminate value between 80 (inclusive) and 90 (exclusive).


sixtysomething

(colloquial) An indeterminate value between 60 (inclusive) and 70 (exclusive).


ninetysomething

(colloquial) An indeterminate value between 90 (inclusive) and 100 (exclusive).


hundredsomething

(colloquial) An indeterminate value between 100 (inclusive) and 200 (exclusive).


googolplexplex

Note that this is Alpha version 1x10 to the negative googolplexplex.

1992 January 31, Paul Jason Clegg, “Re: General Comments”, in alt.galactic-guide (Usenet):

This thread is about the new page about factors of number near googolplexplex (http://www.alpertron.com.ar/GOOGOLP.HTM). Of course, prime factors of googolplexplex-1, -10 or +10 are very easy to find using the methods you mention above.

2004 March 2, Dario Alejandro Alpern, “Re: Prime factors of number near googolplexplex”, in sci.math (Usenet):

Known prime factors of Googolplexplex+1.

2008, Kimmo Halunen, Pauli Rikula, Juha Röning, “On the Security of VSH in Password Schemes”, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability: March 4–7, 2008, Barcelona, Spain, Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Since we're on the subject, you should know too that 10#123;100#92;text#123;th

2014 September, Will Callender, Jr., “Study 3: Problem with the Minuscule”, in Abdication: God Steps Down for Good, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 112:

The number 10^(10^(10¹⁰⁰)) or 10^( text )googolplex, 10 raised to the power of one googolplex.

Names of large numbers#The googol family

dziesięć do potęgi dziesięciu do potęgi dziesięciu do potęgi stu


twelfe

Tis now ſtrooke twelfe, get thee to bed Franciſco,

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:


duovigintillion

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(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁶⁹.

(rare; dated British & Australian, long scale) 10¹³².


trevigintillion

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(rare, US, modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁷².

(rare, dated British & Australian, long scale) 10¹³⁸.


quattuorvigintillion

From Latin quattuor (“four”) + vigintillion.

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(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁷⁵.

(rare; dated British & Australian, long scale) 10¹⁴⁴.


two thirds

two-thirds (alternative)
twothirds (alternative)


five eighths

plural of five eighth; alternative form of five-eighths


one tenth

He wanted to be one tenth the man and the Spacer M'tai had been – or any of those great pioneers.

1998, CD Moulton, Robert Cole Todd/Space Services Collector's edition, page 3:

You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was.

2013, John Dann MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, page 93:

A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.


three-fifths

three-fifths of the population

a three-fifths majority

Three of five equal parts (3/5, ⅗, 0.6).


one-fourth

California state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson told The Wall Street Journal last month when the legislation passed that “one-fourth of California’s publicly traded companies still do not have a single woman on their board, despite numerous independent studies that show companies with women on their board are more profitable and productive.”

2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business:


millionty

When I looked out at the empty auditorium, I could see it filled up with a millionty people, cheering and clapping and calling my name.

Whatever, before you all reach for the Basildon Bond to say 'it's all right for some' and you don't have a millionty pounds to spend on a set of wheels, I should point out that cars do not have to be expensive to be handsome.

I've seen Star Wars a millionty times in my life, but never here, and never with Luke.

(colloquial, humorous) A very large number.


googolplexian

You've masturbated googolplexian times.

1989, Arthur Byron Cover, Stationfall, page 117:

the googolplexian other contrivances that make monastic Zen life what Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once called "the biggest joke that has ever been played in the spiritual realm. But it is a practical joke, very practical."

2013, Shozan Jack Haubner, Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk:

Only 477,000 miles' worth of love? I love you that much times a googolplexian.

2014, Season Vining, Beautiful Addictions, page 274:

(humorous) The number 10 raised to the power of one googolplex. It can also be written as 10^(10^(10^100)).


yoleven

Coined to avoid confusion with seven in the loud casino environment.

(US, gambling, chiefly craps) The number eleven.


heptillion

A single aphid can theoretically generate 1 heptillion descendants (that's 24 zeroes).

2008, Organic Gardening, volume 55, number 5, page 17:


thousand million

Remark also that it is only for facility of counting that we have reckoned our universe as a thousand million suns; […]

1901, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 64:

(chiefly UK) Synonym of billion (sense 1)


trigintillion

From Latin trīgintā (“thirty”) + -illion.

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(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁹³.

(rare; dated British & Australian, long scale) 10¹⁸⁰.


quinvigintillion

The number 1004 is 100 million (100,000,000), not much time at all for today's computers, while the more naive approach of trying all matchings would yield about two quinvigintillion (2 followed by seventy-eight zeros) computation steps.

2017, Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible, page 36:

In Figure 6.4, you can see that I earned $460 quinvigintillion in the six or so hours that I was away from the game.

2018, Nicholas Lovell, The Pyramid of Game Design:

In fact, the chance of two irides (yes, this is the plural of the word "iris" — go figure?) being identical is estimated to be one in a quinvigintillion. For the record, that is a crazy huge number—a one with seventy-eight zeroes after it!

2019, Ella Schwartz, Can You Crack the Code?::

(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁷⁸.

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sexvigintillion

(rare, US, modern British and Australia, short scale) 10⁸¹.

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septenvigintillion

(rare, US, modern British and Australia, short scale) 10⁸⁴.

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octovigintillion

(rare, US, modern British and Australia, short scale) 10⁸⁷.

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novemvigintillion

(rare, US, modern British and Australia, short scale) 10⁹⁰.

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untrigintillion

Knuth's Problem-Solving Seminar (see STAN-CS-81-863) tried to find the lexicographically last prime and power of two using Web3. 2**320 = 2135 ... 76 is "two untrigintillion one hundred thirty five trigintillion ...." last prime = "two vigintillion two undecillion two trillion two thousand two hundred ninety three"

1985 October 2, Dana S. Richards, “Arranging Numbers ** SPOILER *”, in net.puzzle (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-11-14:

Q What is the answer to googol minus 1? — Zachary Jon Walder, Stockton School, Cherry Hill / A A googol is a fun name for a huge number. It's a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. So 1 less is 100 nines, or a 9 followed by 99 nines. Here’s how to say that number: 9 duotrigintillion, 999 untrigintillion, 999 trigintillion, 999 novemvigintillion, 999 octovigintillion, 999 septemvigintillion, 999 sesvigintillion, 999 quinvigintillion, 999 quattuorvigintillion, 999 tresvigintillion, 999 duovigintillion, 999 unvigintillion, 999 vigintillion, 999 novemdecillion, 999 octodecillion, 999 septendecillion, 999 sexdecillion, 999 quindecillion, 999 quattuordecillion, 999 tredecillion, 999 duodecillion, 999 undecillion, 999 decillion, 999 nonillion, 999 octillion, 999 septillion, 999 sextillion, 999 quintillion, 999 quadrillion, 999 trillion, 999 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine.

1999 April 25, Peter Mucha, “Kids’ Talk”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa., page G4, columns 1–2:

The correct answer is: 1836239000203040034250246621435242410100352052020620341413572572562452413011204205245248562476247624924924682346724875913948275247646824359245123423852456842875248584567456727138413447564562523459225924724564672858272772752757257278572572752475723457257275177312347246534 Which is: One novemoctogintillion, eight hundred thirty-six octooctogintillion, two hundred thirty-nine septoctogintillion, […] four hundred fifty-six duotrigintillion, seven hundred twenty-seven untrigintillion, one hundred thirty-eight trigintillion, […] three hundred forty-seven million, two hundred forty-six thousand, five hundred thirty-four

2011 October 22, j...@myplace.com, “Series/Parallel of 10 resistors question”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-11-14:

The long period required for fulfilling pāramitā to attain Buddhahood is mentioned as a set of numbers as multiples whose numerical products are also given. These are given in the table below[…][“Factors”:] koṭi (10⁷) x uppalayak (10⁹¹) [“Product”:] = kumudayeka (one hundred untrigintillion, 10⁹⁸)

2012, Chandana Jayawardana, “Ancient Mathematical Practices in Sri Lanka: A Survey based on the Pūjāvaliya”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, volume LVII, section “Multiplication”, page 56:

It’s [AdVenture Capitalist] an interesting and quite addictive game, and in time you’ll have the opportunity to spend such unpronounceable amounts as 24 untrigintillion dollars, which we think has a fair few zeros after the initial couple of digits.

2015 March, “App of the Week: AdVenture Capitalist: David Hayward embraces capitalism and makes huge profits”, in Micro Mart, number 1354, page 127, columns 2–3:

(rare, US; modern British and Australian, short scale) 10⁹⁶.

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duotrigintillion

(rare, US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁹⁹.

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quattuortrigintillion

(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10¹⁰⁵.

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octogintillion

From Latin octōgintā (“eighty”) + -illion.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:octogintillion.

(rare, US, modern British and Australia, short scale) 10²⁴³


quadragintillion

From Latin quadrāgintā (“forty”) + -illion.

(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10¹²³.

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wun

He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.

[1687, Chriſtopher Cooper, “Chap. XIX: Of Barbarous Speaking”, in The Engliſh Teacher, London: John Richardſon, for the Author, pages 77-78; republished Menston: Scolar Press, 1969:


sextrigintillion

(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10¹¹¹.

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septentrigintillion

(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10¹¹⁴.

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octotrigintillion

(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10¹¹⁷.

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novemtrigintillion

(rare; US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10¹²⁰.

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quinquagintillion

They reject the truth and place their bets on a number like quinquagintillion.

2011, Lynn E Sheldon, No More Namby Pamby, page 88:

It's hard to find a physical example comparable to the size of 100 factorial, something like a 9 followed by 157 zeros, or almost one hundred thousand quinquagintillion (say that five times fast), but there are some.

2020, Elliot Bendoly, Excel Basics to Blackbelt, page 217:

Jesus! That's more than 426 quinquagintillion!

2023, Philip L. Rettew, When the Moon Is Red:

(US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10¹⁵³.


millinillion

Recognised extensions to the standard dictionary names go up to a millinillion, 10³⁰⁰³.

2014, Ian Stewart, Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries:

When I say could, it is because we have a defensive perimeter, but now many hours could my few sextillion nanobots resist to the famished appetite of millinillions of attackers—a millinillion is of course one with three thousand zeros behind it.

Suggesions for extending the named lead to millinillion, which is 10³⁰⁰³.

2017, Ian Stewart, Infinity: A Very Short Introduction, page 20:

With such a constellation, we, which is to say our visible universe(s), are sitting on an energy bomb millinillion times more powerful in each piece of Planck volume than our whole universe could bring together.

2024, Norbert Schwarzer, Quantum Gravity War: How Will the Nearby Unification of Physics Change the Future of Warfare, page 177:

(US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10³⁰⁰³.


myllion

And a myllion of others, whose eyes the Foules of the valley pecke out, before the seede of saluation can haue any rooting In theyr soules .

1593, Thomas Nash, Christ's Teares over Jerusalem:

but the first of that we never received before August, and of that ther ys one 100,000 dewe yet; and of the 300,0000 disbursed, yf ther hath byn paid in money 70,000 to the soldyers hit hath byn a myllion.

1844, Robert Dudley, edited by John Bruce, Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester During His Government of the Low Countries in the Years 1585 and 1586, page 426:

and if it lye in my power I will requite yt as a martiall man ought to doe (which is) with the repaying of his money and a myllion of thankes besides; but trosting not altogether unto hym, I desyre youre favorabell faver this ones to accomplysh my desyres that I may not be one of the basest that fowlose his Lo;

1872, Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, Trevelyan Papers, Part III, page 74:

When they were come to the house of Cambyses, Cyrus was received of his parentes, who having knowledge that he was their sonne, kyssed and embraced him a myllion of times, holding themselves the most happy and fortunate people in the world for the sodayne and unhoped recovery of their sweete sonne, whom they never thoughte to have seene alyve.

1924, Herodotus, The Famous Hystory of Herodotus, page 81:

'There might be,' he reported, 'a myllion of gold secretly conveyed aboard.'

1992, Peter Earle, The Last Fight of the Revenge, page 65:


googolduplex

She was bigger than any exaggeration of most feet, more than a million, gazillion, googolduplex, […] more than much, much more than all fathoms, feet, miles, or anything anything.

2014, Cecil Jewette, Mae Clarke Overdrive:

From a googolduplex you can leap to a googoltriplex, a one followed by a googolduplex zeroes, and then to a googolquadruplex, which has a googoltriplex zeroes, and so on.

2022, Tony Padilla, Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, page 32:

(often humorous) The number 10 raised to the power of one googolplex.


tensomething

> 1) is everybody reading uk.misc twentysomething? / Well, I'm tensomething (nineteen :-)

1993 March 17, ees...@dct.ac.uk, “Newsgroups: uk.misc”, in uk.misc (Usenet):

Similarly, most true geeks rarely watch television and very rarely watch movies (the last movie I saw in a theater was The Empire Strikes Back way back when I was tensomething).

1993 May 11, CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR, “Ridiculous Theory #1”, in alt.geek (Usenet):

Now that MTV is tensomething, it is apposite to consider whether music video has lived up to its initial billing as a revolutionary new aesthetic phenomenon.

1994, Gary Burns, “How Music Video Has Changed, and How It Has Not Changed: 1991 vs. 1985”, in Popular Music and Society, volume 18, →DOI, page 67:

This poster, as well as previous ones, labors under the idea that there is just *one* Chinatown in SF. While it is true that there is a section of the city known as Chinatown with the requisite [to the uninitiated] foreign smells, narrow lanes, discount stores, and restaurants, there are many Chinese enclaves scattered throughout the city, including one centered around Clement and the twentysomething avenues, and one centered around Irving/Judah and the tensomething avenues [but I don't have a map handy and could be numerically off on either].

1996 May 8, Theron Stanford, “Chicken lady”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-02-19:

On page 10 of the book Russo shows the liner notes from the notorious EMS 401 album which Zappa purchased at the age of tensomething.

1998 October 5, ife...@daten-kontor.hu, “The legend of the Varese quote debunked”, in alt.fan.frank-zappa (Usenet):

Any whole number between 10 and 19, inclusive.


thowsand

The articles whereof were theſe: That ſuch as were in debt, ſhould be cleered of all their debts, and that the landes alſo ſhould be diuided into equall partes: so that from the valley of Pallena vnto mount Taugetus, and vnto the cities of Malea, and Selasia, there ſhould be foure thowſand fiue hundred partes,[…]

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:


four score

Blanch. How old art thou now, Adam? / Wint[erton]. Four ſcore, come Martlemas: and, by our Lady, I can run with a lapwing.

1796, George Colman, the Younger, The Iron Chest: […], Dublin: […] Thomas Burnside, for P. Wogan, J. Rice, and G. Folingsey, act I, scene II, page 14:

His eldest son is at this present four score years of age, and his second son may now reckon three score; at our lady-day last he made up the years of his life just 102.

1826, William Hone, The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information, column 841:

Although this patent is taken for a very important article, the door lock, the specification of the invention does not contain more than four score words.

1834, Thomas P[ascal] Jones, editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania; Devoted to the Mechanic Arts, Manufactures, General Science, and the Recording of American and Other Patented Inventions, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Franklin Institute, […], page 178:


four-score

This Work, beſides the Poetry, will contain about four-ſcore Plates of Muſic.

1773, Orfeo ed Euridice; Orpheus and Eurydice; an Opera in One Act. As Performed at the King’s Theatre in the Hay-Market., London: […] W. Griffin, […], page 16:

3. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more. 4. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is four-score years of age, or upwards, and under ninety, to receive four times his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and three times as much more.

1806, The Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine and Review; or, A Treasury of Divine and Useful Knowledge, volume X, London: […] J. G. Barnard, […], and sold by F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], page 140:

I was then about four-score years of age, and my infirmities much increased by the severity of my confinement, yet as my day was, so strength was given.

1814, W. L. S. G., The Trial of Antichrist; Otherwise, The Man of Sin, for High Treason Against the Son of God, Tried at the Sessions House of Truth, […], 2nd edition, Dublin: […] [T]he Author, and Sold by T. Johnstone, […], Ogle […], Ogle & Aikman, […], page 174:

In twenty minutes after I left the pulpit, being anxious for letters from my family at home, I threw myself into a coach, and did not halt till I reached Liverpool, where I expected to find some: a journey of nearly four-score miles, not a small work for three-score and ten years!

1833, An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life, of Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S., &c. […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: […] B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, […], page 140:

Sir George Mackenzie, nine years of age when it occurred, thus refers to the event, with additional circumstances, as being in his time notorious and uncontroverted:—“And our accusers should remember, that these women were executed for higher crimes than the following Montrose’s camp, for which four-score women and children were drowned;[…]”

1856, Mark Napier, Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, volume second, Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., page 587:

Nearly four-score children received gratuitous medical attention and care during 1874, and, had the accommodations been more ample, many more little sufferers would have been treated.

1875, Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, numbers 6-1875 (Statements Relating to Reformatory, Charitable, and Industrial Schools for the Young), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 96:

While the survey goes far beyond the upwards of four-score plates, they make it possible to check the argument at all crucial points.

1930, The International Studio, page 77:


half-a-dozen

[P]ray, step down to the cellar and fetch us a bottle of the Burgundy, 1678—it is the fourth bin from the right-hand turn—And I say, Craigie—you may fetch up half-a-dozen whilst you are about it—Egad, we'll make a night on't.

1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 172:

[…] except about half-a-dozen which fell into the porritch-pot, which was on boiling at the time, were reduced to a heap of grey aizles.

1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith, page 203:

He must do one of these two things: in the first case, his ministry may daunder on till there is another strike of half-a-dozen, like the present; in the latter, it will be blown about his ears, from without.

He especially recommended the only shoemaker who, to his mind, had an idea of making a shoe; and Lucy had at least half-a-dozen pair made, fitted, and descanted upon, before he was satisfied that they did justice to the shape of her foot, which proved extremely good when it was properly chaussé.

1833, Arabella Sullivan, Recollections of a Chaperon, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 229:

Obedient to this summons there ranged themselves in front of the schoolmaster's desk, half-a-dozen scarecrows, out at knees and elbows, one of whom placed a torn and filthy book beneath his learned eye.

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Of the Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 69:

But, now, the Bird of Paradise was seen to flutter down the middle; and the little bells began to bounce and jingle in poussette; and the Doctor's rosy face spun round and round, like an expressive peg-top highly varnished; and breathless Mr. Craggs began to doubt already, whether country dancing had been made 'too easy,' like the rest of life; and Mr. Snitchey, with his nimble cuts and capers, footed it for Self and Craggs, and half-a-dozen more.

1846, Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life:

half-a-dozen huge bread pills, dipped in a solution of aloes or cinnamon water, flavoured with assafœtida, which in the case of the dyspeptic rich often suffice [...].

1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54:

Up jump half-a-dozen off the logs and baulkings, where they have been squatting, doubled up knee to nose, after the fashion of their class; and a volley of execrations, like a storm of grape, almost blows the two offenders off the wall.

1857, Charles Kingsley, “Still Life”, in Two Years Ago, volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 45:

And he would tell her all sorts of wonders, old-world gaieties, long before she was born; and how finely the great Mr. [George Frideric] Handel played upon the harpischord^([sic]) in the Music Hall, and how his talk was in German, Latin, French, English, Italian, and half-a-dozen languages beside, […]

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole Makes a Little Excursion; and Two Choice Spirits Discourse, and Hebe Trips In with the Nectar”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 275–276:

Not without some difficulty, however: Cheret said he took as much killing as two lions or half-a-dozen boars.

1864, John Ormsby, “A Ramble with the Lion-Hunters”, in Autumn Rambles in North Africa, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, pages 198–195:

Then there was a wild scuffle and a furious outcry, and all the bargemen for a moment seemed to hug me and themselves too; when, as there was no room to hit out, in the phraseology of the ring, I fibbed at half-a-dozen waistcoats and faces with all my might and main.

1865, Grantley Berkeley, “Eton Boys”, in My Life and Recollections, volume 1, page 311:

Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions.

1866, Thomas Tod Stoddart, An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs, page 46:

These vulgar drunkardesses are only fit themes for such papers as the Alliance News; and yet socially their degeneration may be productive of more harm than the demoralizing influence of half-a-dozen eau-de-cologne swillers in Mayfair or Belgravia.

1871 February 8, “Occasional Notes”, in The Pall Mall Gazette, volume XIII, number 1869, page 4:

If I were to order a small swarm of Ligurians, and on arrival give them half-a-dozen combfuls of brood, but clear of bees, from as many hives, of course they would do well;[…]

1879 April 1, H. M. S., “Queries and Replies”, in Charles Nash Abbott, editor, The British Bee Journal, and Bee-Keeper’s Adviser, volume VI, number 72, Southall: […] the Office […]; London: Kent and Co., […], Query No. 300 (Small Swarm), page 235:

This was signed by Dana Da, who added pentacles and pentagrams, and a crux ansata, and half-a-dozen swastikas, and a Triple Tau to his name, just to show that he was all he laid claim to be.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 423–4:

Look at them—scrutinise them, and see if every question of the day is not written there—written in indelible ink for future ages to read. They are “writ large” in the faces of half-a-dozen of the foremost men, and repeated in text in the host of lesser men. Take those three photographs that are “placed in the line,” as it were—Lord Salisbury, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. John Dillon. In that trio you have the whole of the Irish question, from A to Z, and, if you throw in Mr. Parnell, with his smooth, mild, and inscrutable countenance, you have the “amparzand.”

1888, The Phrenological Magazine, volume 4, page 143:

He went in a perisher last night, laying against Sir Tatton Sykes for the Derby with a half-a-dozen thousand pound notes in his hands, all of which he will lose.

It was to the last class that [Stéphanie Félicité,] Madame [de Genlis] belongs, and perhaps her boast of her knowledge of half-a-dozen languages, and her proficiency on no fewer than nine instruments, among them what Victor Hugo called “the bug-pipes,” and of her acquaintance with field labour and gardening, may simply mean that she was Jill of all trades and mistress of none; […]

1891 April 3, “Four Frenchwomen”, in The Morning Post, number 37,067, London, page 3, column 2:

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XIV, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
A rough coffin was made during the night and at the grave half-a-dozen of the line men with Strangway, Stanley, Talmud, the doctor and a couple of rouseabouts constituted the mourners.

Then, after an anonymous draughtsman, "M.S.R.," had appeared with a single cut ("Candles"), Mr. F. Wilfrid Lawson, the elder brother and teacher of Cecil Lawson, contributed a sheetful of initials and vignettes which dribbled forth in the paper up to 1876; and Mr. T. Walters, a half-a-dozen, up to 1875. Mr. E. J. Ellis, now better known in other fields than comic draughtsmanship, began on December 12th, 1867.

1895, M. H. Spielmann, The History of "Punch":

But even before he could do so, half-a-dozen black Somanlis, now eager for gain, interposed their strong arms to prevent such culpable waste of good saleworthy slave stuff.

1896, Grant Allen, A bride from the desert - Page 31:

Now half-a-dozen more little pauper princelings and decadent dukelings are trying to trade their worthless coronets for American cash.

c. 1898, William Cowper Brann, Speaking of Gall:

As for Will Deverill, less critical of Nature’s handicraft, he found the inns over-civilised; the Post and the Bräu were too fine for his taste: they had come thus far in search of solitude and Alpine wilds, and they lighted instead on a sort of miniature Grindelwald, with half-a-dozen inns, a respectable café, experienced (or in other words extortionate) guides, and a regular tourist-trap for the sale of chamois-horns and carved models of châlets.

1900, Grant Allen, chapter 1, in Linnet:

Theobald spoke as if watches had half-a-dozen purposes besides time-keeping, but he could hardly open his mouth without using one or other of his tags, and "answering every purpose" was one of them.

1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 41, in The Way of All Flesh:

There were about half-a-dozen of them; Lane, the rowing blue, and a swine I know in Magdalen, and a couple of toothbrushless Taffies […]

1925, Geoffrey Pomeroy Dennis, Harvest in Poland:

Rumors, carefully and cleverly circulated by Mascodagama’s friends, diverted speculations toward his being a mysterious visitor from beyond the Golden Curtain, particularly since at least half-a-dozen members of a large Good-will Circus Company that had come from Tartary just then […] had already defected between France and England, somewhere in the newly constructed ‘Chunnel.’

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 30, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, London: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 1, page 144:

It might be objected that the ratio depends on the exigencies of the drama, that e.g. short anapaestic passages of only half-a-dozen or so metra plus their paroemiac might be required in some plays, not in others, and thus lower the ratio for those plays.

2007, Mark Griffith, The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound, →ISBN, page 72:

During the original AWC^([Australian Wildlife Conservancy]) survey, Alexander Baynes identified, in a single hollow salmon gum, 283 jaws of half-a-dozen native mammal species, mostly dunnarts, many of which were recovered from owl pellets.

2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 18:

The good news is that £800 million is allocated to new rolling stock, £200m for stations (including six new ones), and a further £736m to transform the Valley Lines, a network of half-a-dozen services that run up the valleys from Cardiff.

2019 December 18, Christian Wolmar, “Overdue investment and a better deal for Welsh railways”, in Rail, page 54:


milly

Sir David Attenborough has broken the record for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram, reaching the milestone in just over four hours, according to the Guinness World Records. ¶ That means the 94-year-old naturalist has surpassed the previous record set by Aniston, who reached the one milly mark in five hours and 16 minutes.

2020 September 25, Rachel Thompson, “Sir David Attenborough breaks Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram record”, in Mashable:


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[Youssef] Beidas was the founder and head of Intra Bank, a centimillion-dollar banking organization with main headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, and branches just about everywhere, including the United States.

1972, Béla W[illiam] von Block, Super-Detective: The Many Lives of Tom Ponzi, Europe’s Master Investigator, Chicago, Ill.: Playboy Press, →LCCN, page 168:

Over the next forty years—until the advent of a world war—the vast majority of the population might struggle to keep up with the Joneses. But for a fistful of Robber Barons with their centimillions the challenge was keeping up with the Vanderbilts.

1974, Allen Churchill, “The Terrifying Commodore”, in The Splendor Seekers: An Informal Glimpse of America’s Multimillionaire Spenders—Members of the $50,000,000 Club, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, pages 16–17:

Davey Reed had always been impressed by Emerson Foster. Foster was smart and smooth and knew who he was, and he stayed concentrated on things; he set goals, little goals and big goals, and he pursued them until he reached them, the little ones and the big ones. Which was how he’d become a centimillionaire, none of it inherited. / But no. Reed was thinking, there had to be something more. Reed could concentrate and he set goals all the time, but he didn’t have a cent, much less a centimillion.

1985, Stan Lee [i.e., Stanley R. Lee], “The Conspirators”, in Dunn’s Conundrum, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 313:

If person i has M centimillion dollars, he will make the sum over j of n_(Mij) be 1 mod 21.

2000, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, volume 25, →ISSN, page 145:

Boing Boing
Mark Frauenfelder
Visible Ink Press


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As an example of how long Keynes’ influence has outlived the man himself, President Richard M. Nixon in 1971 after presenting a centibillion dollar national budget remarked fatalistically—and perhaps ironically: “I am now a Keynesian in economics!”

1973, Rose L. Martin, “High Finance in a Changing World”, in The Selling of America, Santa Monica, Calif.: Fidelis Publishers Inc., →LCCN, pages 231–232:

In effect, today’s centibillion-dollar U.S. trade deficits are the financial costs of a Marshall Plan for the 1980s. […] Through trade, we help keep the global economy afloat but at the cost of bankruptcies and centibillion-dollar trade deficits.

1985 August 12, Lawrence Minard, “Noah’s ark, anyone?”, in Forbes, volume 136, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Inc., →ISSN, pages 76–77:

Seen from the present day—a time of general disrepair in banking and of a centibillion-dollar crisis in the so-called thrift industry—the turn of the century has a powerful nostalgic appeal.

1992, James Grant, “Democratizing Credit”, in Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →LCCN, page 76:

Well, we do persist: centibillion-dollar federal deficits still stretch as far as the eye can see, and other indicators of governmental and personal imprudence are rife.

1995 February 6, William S. Rukeyser, “Pardon Me, But Is This Armageddon?”, in Fortune, volume 131, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, page 84, column 2:

The centibillion-dollar question is, who can become the AOL or Microsoft of car portals?

2000 April 17, Rich Karlgaard, “Digital Rules: General Motors Is a Buy”, in Forbes, volume 165, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Inc., →ISSN, page 55, column 1:

The Jews created a civilization out of the wilderness and a garden out of the desert, while the Arabs—even with their centibillions of petrodollars—continued to mire themselves in medieval tyranny and poverty.

2004, Jack Wheeler, “Aeschylus and America”, in Aman Verjee, Rod D. Martin, editors, Thank You, President Bush: Reflections on the War on Terror, Defense of the Family, and Revival of the Economy, Los Angeles, Calif.: World Ahead Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 103:


decabillion

Breathtaking megadeals make headlines almost daily, and have lost their ability to astound. Kraft, RJR Nabisco, Pillsbury — these and other takeovers and leveraged buyouts requiring deca[-]billions of dollars, would have overwhelmed the most sophisticated investment bankers of the 1970s.

1988 October 30, Robert Sobel, “J.P. Morgan Would Call Takeovers Of Today No Big Deal”, in New York Newsday, New York, N.Y., page 78, column 1:

Of course, to achieve what he did, [Jeff] Vinik had to take risks—throwing decabillions of dollars into technology stocks long before that sector caught fire, for instance, and tossing out all the consumer growth stocks so beloved by [Peter] Lynch (“no growth potential,” says Vinik).

1995 September, Gregory Spears, “The $50 Billion Man”, in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, volume 49, number 9, Washington, D.C.: The Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc., →ISSN, pages 33–34:

The common currency of all such East–West discussions was money—the need for very large sums to carry out macroeconomic reform, but just as the United States and the other G-7 states had resisted Mikhail Gorbachev’s outsized requests, so too did Boris Yeltsin’s large numbers after 1991 fail to bring forth the decabillions sought.

1997, Robert Sharlet, “Bringing the Rule of Law to Russia and the Newly Independent States: The Role of the West in the Transformation of the Post-Soviet Legal Systems”, in Karen Dawisha, editor, The International Dimension of Post-Communist Transitions in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (The International Politics of Eurasia; 10), Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, page 323:

[Bill] Gates is worth decabillions in part because he had a few big visions, such as the basic tide of growth in PCs and the creative power of open standards, but equally important has been his embrace of the fluidity of the future and an awesome ability to react to surprises.

1998 May 20, James V. DeLong, “Perspective on Microsoft: The Goose With the Golden Egg Is Being Led to Slaughter”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Times Mirror Company, page B13, column 3:

The earth has given us three imperatives. The first is to reproduce with foresight. Our planet is a sphere. Space and materials are finite. Freedom, health, and breath cannot coexist with a limitless surge of fleshy billions, doubling in decades to decabillions and doubling again.

2004, Paul R. Fleischman, “Introduction to the Second Edition”, in Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom, and Poetry of Gandhi, Thoreau, the Buddha, and Others, 2nd edition, Onalaska, Wash.: Pariyatti Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 11:

Rebuilding New Orleans will require many years, deca-billions of dollars and a national consensus about priorities, there and elsewhere.

2005 September 8, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, “The business of America: Katrina ‘a failure of leadership’”, in The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla., page 19A, columns 3–4:

Google’s revenue from its unlikely foray into selling software probably won’t be all that much to begin with, but this isn’t a fight for sales. Think of this fight as determining a few decabillion dollars of market value circa 2010.

2006 November 27, Victoria Murphy Barret, Quentin Hardy, “Desperate Acts”, in Forbes, volume 178, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Forbes LLC., →ISSN, page 46, column 3:


decamillion

You have no life, and so you do not know what it means to deny what has been the meaning of your life, for if you’ve been wrong, mark you now, if you’ve been wrong, then what of the decamillion of graves, and so you’re committed, you’re committed wholly, do you understand? and each action you perform can only confirm you further in your political position or what I would now call the lack of one, and there’s only the nightmare of yourself if you’re wrong, […]

1951, Norman Mailer [pseudonym; Nachem Malech Mailer], Barbary Shore, New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont.: Rinehart & Co. Inc., page 241:

And this more fabulous than invalid Broadway was already getting ready for another upbeat year with a decamillion-plus advance sale for a musical that isn’t expected to open until April 1991.

1990 September 1, Otis L[ove] Guernsey Jr., “Editor’s Note”, in Otis L. Guernsey Jr., Jeffrey Sweet, editors, The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989–1990: Featuring the Ten Best Plays of the Season, New York, N.Y.: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, →ISBN, page vii:

Drawing on Gerald D. Nash’s historiography, [James C.] Work rehearses the necessary background—the so-called closing of the frontier, the migration of decamillions of people into the twentieth-century West, then the subsequent anomie, “disjunction” among the cultures involved, and environmental devastation—and arrives at a consequence: the utter difficulty, for contemporary writers acutely aware of what has transpired, of writing about the “West of ‘once upon a time.’”

1996, Michael L. Johnson, “Rewriters of the Purple Sage, Part 1: Trails to New Western Literature”, in New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture, Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 127:

Were his fortunes to evaporate and leave him completely broke, Xizor would still not sell this plant, not if somebody offered him a decamillion credits.

1996, Steve Perry, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 201:

Nearly 300 million computers worldwide installed Windgazer 99 beginning June 8, 1999. Decamillions of those users worshipped the Windgazer 99 screen saver as a gift from the heavens.

1999, Edwin Black, Format C:, Cambridge, Mass.: Brookline Books, →ISBN, page 213:

Even coming from my conditioning of nihilism and dread, without the comfort of simple beliefs, aware of awesome human evil and hatred, of wars that kill decamillions, I can be, I will be, an expression of contentless faith.

1999, Paul R. Fleischman, “Why I Sit”, in Karma and Chaos: New and Collected Essays on Vipassana Meditation, New Delhi: New Age Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 21:

Not all large gains are held in suspicion, of course. For example, I have not heard social critics charging that the baseball slugger Mark McGwire’s decamillion-dollar income is at someone else’s expense.

2002, Young Back Choi, “Misunderstanding Distribution”, in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D[ycus] Miller, Jr., Jeffrey Paul, editors, Should Differences in Income and Wealth Matter?, Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:

By May 2000, their [the Backstreet Boys’] #4 Al. 11-99 Millennium hurdled the decamillion (10M) mountain (who NEEDS #1?)

2003, Maury Dean, “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Us!”, in Rock ’n’ Roll Gold Rush: A Singles Un-cyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 571, column 2:

If I want to take off for a week with friends or family, it’s not a problem at all, because I don’t have to apply to get off and I don’t have a loss of income for doing that. I am free to do whatever I can dream to do, and THAT alone is success. Even once I hit the millions and hopefully decamillions in years to come, I don’t think any of that is going to be as big of an accomplishment as having the freedom to live without a job.

2008, Nathan Morris, “[Moonlight on Nathan Morris] Nathan’s Moonlighting Story”, in Yanik Silver, Robert Olic, Moonlighting on the Internet: 5 World-Class Experts Reveal Proven Ways to Make an Extra Paycheck Online Each Month, [Irvine, Calif.]: Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Moonlighting on the Internet Method #1), section 1 (Selling Digitally Delivered Information), chapter 4 (How to Figure Out What Information to Sell), page 32, column 1:

After you have made your commitments (motivation) and set your goals (and the time frame for reaching them), you must understand that the most important characteristic is sustained and relentless marketing. The most successful million-, multimillion- and decamillion-dollar advisors I have worked with never quit marketing. […] The most successful advisor I have ever worked with, a decamillion-dollar advisor, was a leader in the most important high-profile philanthropic organizations in his marketplace.

2008, David J. Mullen, Jr., The Million-Dollar Financial Services Practice: A Proven System for Becoming a Top Producer, New York, N.Y.: AMACOM, American Management Association, →ISBN, pages 8 (part 1, The Foundation; chapter 1, Overview) and 193 (part 2, Taking It to the Next Level: Building a Million-Dollar Practice; chapter 19, Beyond a Million-Dollar Practice):

The end result is the Pinnacles Volcanic Formation (PVF) consisting of massive pile-ups of volcanic debris. But the story of woe doesn’t stop there: Over the next few decamillion years, aggressive faulting thugs continuously barged in and out, uprooting solid-rock neighborhoods and throwing things all over the place. The PVF has been continually subjected to such severe geologic injustices that the World Geohealth Organization has called on the international community to put an end to the violence.

2009, Jon Kramer, Julie Martinez, “Pinnacles National Monument”, in California Underground Adventures: A Guide to Caves, Mines and Lava Tubes, Cambridge, Minn.: Adventure Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 148:

‘So far,’ says Caro Odoma, the other Alexandrian, ‘the sim-people have shown remarkable creativity in rationalising these . . . dark matters!’ His sidelong glance shares some private joke with his colleague, to your intense irritation. ‘They’re resilient – I wouldn’t worry about cultural calamity.’ / ‘No indeed!’ you snap back. ‘I’d worry about their dying by the decamillion in agony!’

2010, Ken MacLeod, The Restoration Game, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page xv:

I had the opportunity to sell a $14.6 million property in Hawaii, but lacked the experience to do it; I had never sold a home in Hawaii nor a decamillion dollar property.

2012, Aristotle Karas, “Achieve Your Goals, Faster, Easier, Simpler”, in Step into Your Vision: Top Business Leaders Share Their Goal-Setting Secrets, Treasure Island, Fla.: Komera Press, →ISBN, page 105:

Having been inflated by cheap money for more than a decade, the stock-market bubble will pop and wipe off the life-savings of decamillions in America in an echo of the 1929 crash and making the 2008 financial meltdown look like a dress rehearsal.

2023, Amjad Farooq, Summary of The Oqual Cycle: The 84-Year Rhythm of Human Civilization, Miami, Fla.: Oquannium Xpress, →ISBN, page 94:


hectomillion

First Investors, one of the junk bond emporia, managed two mutual funds: the High Yield and the Income Fund. An investment of $10,000 in a typical sample of Standard & Poor’s 500 stocks in fourth quarter 1988 would have yielded about $12,000 today, after a high of $14,500 a year ago. […] Michael Milken, the arachnid at the center of the tangled web of institutions like First Investors, will continue to enjoy the benefits of hectomillions after he gets around to serving his prison sentence.

1991 February, “[Inklings] Milker Milken”, in Wilmot Robertson [pseudonym; John Humphrey Ireland], editor, Instauration, volume 16, number 3, Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Howard Allen Enterprises, Inc., →ISSN, page 21, column 3:

Several may have the same number of hectomillions. They want to know how many hectomillions the richest and poorest among the 20 have and how big those rich and poor subgroups are. […] “Well, I’d start by labeling each mailbox with a hectomillion (1 hectomillion, 2 hectomillions, …, 100 hectomillions) and would lay them out in that order,” Liane responded. […] Imagine again that each person maintains 100 buckets, one for each number of hectomillions between $100 million and $10 billion. […] If person i has M hectomillion dollars, he will make the sum over j of n[M, i, j] be 1 mod 31. […] Imagine that the total for a bucket q is 1. That means that exactly one person has q hectomillion dollars, since all other contributions will cancel out. If the total is 8, say, then eight people have q hectomillion dollars.

2002, Dennis E[lliott] Shasha, “The Richest of Them All”, in Dr. Ecco’s Cyberpuzzles: 36 Puzzles for Hackers and Other Mathematical Detectives, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, pages 173–177:

Why is the word “centmillion” incorrect? / Centimillion is a word sometimes incorrectly used to mean 100 million (10⁸). But the metric prefix “centi-” means 1/100, not 100. There are ways to name this number: 100 million could be called a hectomillion; in the United States, it could be called a decibillion.

[2006, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, The Handy Math Answer Book: Your Smart Reference, Canton, Mich.: Visible Ink Press, →ISBN, page 52:

“How will we house the next hundred million Americans?[…]” —President Richard Nixon, 1969 / President Nixon didn’t live to see his questions answered, but this week the U.S. population surpassed the 300 million mark. And surprisingly, given the tenor of the reaction to the last hectomillion milestone, reached in 1967, the 300 millionth American was not greeted with the same wailing and gnashing of teeth as the 200 millionth.

2006 October 21, “The Population Boon”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 2020-12-13; republished in Editorials On File, volume 37, Facts On File, 2006, page 1436:

The 11 largest-populated nations, therefore, represent 61% of the world’s population and 57% of its economy. The United States and Japan are extremely wealthy; Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Pakistan are not. In fact, the U.S., in October 2006, passed a new hectomillion mark! […] The first hectomillion mark was passed in 1915. The fourth hectomillion mark will be passed in 2050, or perhaps a good deal sooner than that. Moreover, the demographic mix within those hundred-millions is dramatically different today.

2007, V. David Schwantes, Ethics in a Cocoon: How (Not) to Live Well Together, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 321 and 479:


hundredodd

The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.

1975 April 5, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times:


fiftyodd

Then the late Frederick Stokes, my publisher at that time, said that in the fiftyodd years that he had been in the book business he had always wanted to bring out a novel about Lincoln.

1946 February 4, Bruce Lancaster, “The Insides of a Novel”, in The Atlantic:


twentyodd

Ypres was not the actual start of the front; that distinction belongs to Nieuport, a city on the North Sea twentyodd miles down the river Yser from Ypres.

1986 November 4, Jack Beatty, “Along the Western Front”, in The Atlantic:


fortyodd

Fortyodd miles of twisting, climbing, and dropping along the winding back of the ridge made you feel as though you had been riding a cockleshell in a storm.

1951 August 4, Clark C. Van Fleet, “The Steelhead”, in The Atlantic:


seventyodd

If we conceive of the poetry that has been written in English in the last twelve months as a kind of Purgatory, a mountainous cone like Dante’s, with a spiral pathway leading to its summit, we shall find among the one hundred and seventyodd volumes on its lower rounds no ponderable significance; but midway in the ascent we come to a score or more of poets with something to say for themselves.

1905 September 4, Ferris Greenslet, “Significant Poetry”, in The Atlantic:


eightyodd

Inspired by the writings of Sir James Foggart, a Carlylean philosopher, he puts before Parliament a programme much like that presented by Carlyle himself eightyodd years since: emigration of children on a large scale, and cultivation of the land so that the country may produce more of its own food.

1926 September 4, Henry Greenleaf Pearson, “The Silver Spoon”, in The Atlantic:


thirtyodd

The dramatis personæ of the thirtyodd volume series included four beekeepers.

2015 December 3, “Beekeeping in the Discworld and Beyond”, in Blogspot:


sixtyodd

Yet, sartorial considerations aside, there’s not much that separates these 21st Century vocalists and the smiling calypsonians who, some sixtyodd years ago were the foundation of the capital’s indigenous black music industry.

2013 August 21, Lloyd Bradley, “Grime? UK Garage? Dubstep? It’s Just Calypso With A Different Wardrobe”, in NME:


ninetyodd

Thus, Overlord used almost two-thirds of all LSTs available to Allied fleet units worldwide, excluding ninetyodd recently completed on the U.S. East Coast.

(Can we date this quote?), “D-Day Landing Ships”, in History on the Net:


vingtillion

The dinosaur Trachodon had 2,000 teeth, and when one dropped out, another grew in its place. . . . The vingtillion is the largest number usually given a name? It consists of a one followed by sixty-three zeros. . . .

1940 February, Thrilling Wonder Stories, v. 15, n. 02], page 83:

When I am told that between 3 and 4 there is a numerical value that cannot be expressed in whole numbers or decimals, that map-makers need never use more than four colors, that a vingtillion represents the number of grains of sand that Archimedes long ago calculated as sufficient to fill what he believed to be the universe, I just make polite noises[.]

Lovecraft [...speaks of] "another plane of phase of entity from which it [the planet earth] had once fallen, vingtillions of aeons ago."

2013 May 28, Gavin Callaghan, H. P. Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction, McFarland, →ISBN, page 142:


morbillion

From Morbius (character from Marvel Comics; also, the title of a 2022 film featuring said character) + -illion (numeral suffix for powers of 1000). Alternatively, from a blend of Morbius + billion. Due to the film's critical and commercial failure, Morbius became the subject of Internet memes claiming that it was "the first movie to make over one morbillion dollars".

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Bro, that figurine costs like a morbillion quid off Amazon.

kim wexler is a girlboss and my wife and i hope she makes a morbillion dollars and retires on an island

2022 November 20, DoctorWhat, “Better Call Saul Final Season: "You think you've lost everything? You have no idea"”, in Something Awful Forums:

(Internet slang, hyperbolic) An imprecise but very large amount.


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twelvehundred

The wealth of characters to be found in the plays of the period - I have not verified the statement that Shakespeare's contain in all twelvehundred - does not exhaust their infinite variety...

1921, Adolphus William Ward, Collected papers: historical, literary, travel and miscellaneous, page 310:

...commits or tolerates acts knowing that they may expose ship or cargo to being seized, stopped or detained, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding twelvehundred guilders.

1951, Netherlands Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Consular Manual, p. 11

2010, Dieter Mehl, The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals), p. 25.
Thus, it is surely significant that there is such a large number of poems of between about five and twelvehundred lines each.

(chiefly non-native speakers' English) Alternative form of twelve hundred.


millillion

It must have been an older brother in the other bed, for I learned about a million, and went on to consider a billion and a trillion and a quadrillion, and so on to a “millillion,” and even that was not the end: the frightening notion of infinity came next.

1996, Alfred Mitchell Bingham, The Tiffany Fortune: And Other Chronicles of a Connecticut Family, page 233:

However, by the time we reach 10³⁶, an undecillion, things are getting rather difficult. We finally run out shortly after 10³⁰⁰³, which would be a millillion.

2007, Michael A. B. Deakin, Name of the Number, page 21:

However, there are sufficienly well-founded predictions about the world cosmological processes on a nonhuman scale of trillions, decillions and millillions of years, which predict in one way or another the end of the existing universe.

2020, Vladimir Kishinets, Bio-revolution & Futurology:

He was shocked, but his body only moved with a millillion of a spear.

2022, Grace Anthony, Hong Mengchu Kai: The Son of Fate Who Controls the Great Tribulation:


thrain

Or, all the churches give up their names and get married in a union organization—the twain (or "thrain") becoming one flesh. None of these things occurred at Pepperell.

1921, Preacher and Homiletic Monthly, page 205:

[…] twain - yes, they used old words and proverbs and catch-phrases and slogans when they did not wish to face reality - shall meet, because if the twain, or the thrain, or the quain, or the multain complications of life, and love[…]

1959, Christine Brooke-Rose, The Sycamore Tree:

"[The] twain meet—or is that thrain?" "That's brilliant!" I said.

1996, Alexis Page, Three-guy Weekend, Bantam Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

[…] sink me ship, master gunner, sink her, split her in twain—or thrain, if you feel like it. Don't bother about anything else; she's your bird.

2011 11, Stephen Brennan, The Best War Stories Ever Told, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 535:

"Tis not an omen, but an assassin, Banh." […] "A thing may be twain or thrain at once, my student."

2019 October 15, S. C. Emmett, The Throne of the Five Winds, Orbit, →ISBN:

I am torn in twain, thrain, and quatrain![…]

2020 July 14, Eric Darton, Free City, Deep Vellum Publishing, →ISBN:

(nonstandard, often humorous) Three, as coordinate term to (and used in similar sentences to) twain.