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Definition of quintillion
US : a number equal to 1 followed by 18 zeros — see number table; also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros — see number table
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Quintillion is emerging as a new rival to GCI with its construction of a fiber-optic network through northern and Interior Alaska.
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There is the painstaking work of taxonomists who continue to catalogue the earth's estimated 10 quintillion insects; the Greek island beekeepers; and the Zika-fighting mosquitoes in Brazil.
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The famously frustrating, 3-D puzzle (with six colored sides and nine squares per side) has more than 43 quintillion possible combinations but only one solution.
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Tech giant IBM says two and a half quintillion bytes of data are generated every day – equivalent to 90 years of HD video.
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Like it or not, though, you're surrounded—there are about 10 quintillion on Earth, including about 10 quadrillion ants.
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The rapid pulse of text messages will be braided with the slow texts of books, the heartbeats of humans synced with the oscillations of machines, the electricity of 80 quintillion transistors merging with the electricity of 7 billion people.
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Origin and Etymology of quintillion
Latin quintus + English -illion (as in million)
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