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Originally Posted by Weird Dave
The British system makes (or made) it obvious what things like heptillions are:
hept = 7; illion = powers of one million
heptillion = million^7 = 10^42
You tell me that quickly what the American version is :P .
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That'd be heptillion = thousand^(7+1) = 10^24,
Weird Dave
or, another approach, it is multiplying 1000^n times a thousand.