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33 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 30 August 2013 11:44PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 01 September 2013 10:49:55AM *  2 points [-]

It is easy. For example Avogadros number is roughly 10^-24 (for the purpose of estimating numbers of particles in natural phenomena) thus 24=4∙6 thus million^4 thus "Quadrillion" in German. And one googol is 10^100 and 100 = 16∙6+3+1 thus 10 "Sedezilliarden" (from 16=sedecem) albeit all this doesn't work in English at least not so easily.