Zillion
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The word zillion does not refer to any specific mathematical quantity. It can be used in the following ways:
- Conway and Guy[1] have used zillion to refer to any number name (such as million, billion, trillion, and so on) ending in illion. Many others, internationally, approve this use.[2]
- In SymbianOS slang, a hexadecimal number with seven zeroes is a zillion. For example, 0xF0000000 is "F zillion".
- Like the words bazillion, jillion, and so on, the term zillion is sometimes used as a fictitious name for an indefinite large number.
- Musician Stevie Wonder uses the term "zillion" in the title of his popular song "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away".
- In the movie Monkey Business (1952), Dr. Barnaby Fulton (played by Cary Grant), returned to childhood by an elixir of youth, is asked a price for his formula and replies "A zillion dollars! A million trillion!"
- In 1985, ABC released the album How to Be a...Zillionaire!
- In the TV Series DuckTales, Scrooge McDuck uses the word Zillions to descibe his wealth in the episode Merit Time Adventure.
- Zillion the 1987 Japanese anime series.
- Zillion: Burning Night the 1988 OVA.
- Zillion the first video game based on the anime series on Sega Master System.
- Zillion II the sequel video game also based on the anime series.
- Zillion is a European Technology Company based in Switzerland.
- Zillions was a children's magazine published by Consumer Reports. [1]
- Zillion is a New Zealand online auction site [2] which won the "Best New Site" at the 2006 NetGuide Web Awards [3].
- Zillions of Games is a commercial software product for playing abstract strategy games.
[edit] References
- ^ The Book of Numbers, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 0-387-97993-X, p. 14
- ^ Three examples among hundreds: Miakinen.net www.worldwidewords.org Florencetime.net
