What's the difference between gazillion and quadrillion?

Gazillion


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fielder just looks far from his best October 20, 2013 It would be interesting to see how these League Championship Series would have gone had Hanley Ramirez been fully healthy for the Dodgers and Miguel Cabrera wasn't playing through a gazillion trillion injuries.
  • (2) Gazillions, is the somewhat sobering answer – not that a strong box office should insulate the genre against people being allowed to wonder what it's doing with its life.
  • (3) Since the prime minister has not been able to solve our problems and since NHS staff have tried so, so hard and been on our best behaviour all year, this is what is on our Christmas list: 10,000 elves trained in healthcare in the UK or abroad to fill empty jobs; about a gazillion doses of antibiotics; around £5bn as a bailout; stopping people from coming to A&E or calling an ambulance without a real emergency; ears for politicians so that they can listen to us; 20,000 more hospital beds (not trolleys); people to say thank you to our staff.
  • (4) Showrunner Kevin "Scream" Williamson made his name subverting horror–film cliches, but peel away the gazillion cliches here and all you're left with is Criminal Minds offcuts and bits of old CSI.
  • (5) But there is a bigger picture to the new-found familiarity between gazillion-record-selling black American artists with Africa.
  • (6) Adoptee activists, like Kevin Vollmers, of Land of Gazillions Adoptees, have spent the past two months strategizing media plans and gaining political backing to propose a stand-alone bill that would patch the age gap.
  • (7) And there are, of course, gazillions of other charities doing excellent work.
  • (8) I have a gazillion digital photos – all in complete disarray.
  • (9) And you can't blame them for trying; they've spent a gazillion groats on it.
  • (10) Leading the league with a gazillion games in hand on everybody, they’d gone on a winning run that had seen Mauro Rosales and Eddie Johnson combining repeatedly for vital set piece goals.
  • (11) If, on the other hand, I communicate with you via Skype, for a voice call, or Viber, or I send you a message on Whatsapp or Wickr or Threema or Signal or Telegram – there’s a gazillion of them – or indeed if we have a Facetime call, then all that the telco can see insofar as it can see anything is that my device has had a connection with, say, the Skype server or the Whatsapp server … it doesn’t see anything happen with you … It’s important I think for journalists to remember.” Speers asked Turnbull whether that meant terrorists and child sex offenders would also be able to get around the new data retention laws.

Quadrillion


Definition:

  • (n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to the US Energy Information Administration, global energy demand will increase from 524 quadrillion British thermal units in 2010 to 820 quadrillion Btu in 2040 – a 30-year increase of 56%.
  • (2) Now DNA is used, which can identify an individual using his DNA to one in a billion, quadrillion or greater.
  • (3) The exabyte, a one followed by 18 zeroes worth of bytes; the petaflop, one quadrillion calculations performed in a single second.
  • (4) You can't tell what an individual molecule is going to do, but if you deal with trillions and quadrillions and quintillions, you can tell very accurately what they're going to do on average.
  • (5) Current levels of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) in the general population can be accounted for by an average level of 133 or 27 ppq (parts per quadrillion) in food based on an estimated half-life in humans of 1 or 5 yr, respectively.
  • (6) Oh, and a German "Billiarde" is a French "quadrillion" .

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