(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" .
Squillion
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The banks, whose irresponsible lending spree did much to produce the crisis in the first place, are raking in squillions, the bulk of the hundreds of billions in bailout funds lent by the eurozone since 2010.
(2) Whether they can mix it with a Manchester City side who cost several squillion times more than they did, and whose breakfasts probably cost more than Palace's monthly shopping bill (etc etc), might just depend on events at Anfield.
(3) On the edge of Hampstead Heath, north London, is one new, almost completed steel and glass house, costing squillions.
(4) And now the House of Lords EU Committee tells us 15m tonnes of food is wasted in the UK every year , so squillions of those poor chickens went through hell for nothing.
(5) City superwoman” Helena Morrissey is one: she has nine children, earns squillions by day, yet gets home by 6pm every night to do the ironing .