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Billion, Trillon ,Quadrillion,Pentillion, Sextillion, Septillion, Octillion, and Nonillion
a pentillion
To get around the confusion between the US and European use of billion (thousand million or million million) and higher numbers new names, based on Greek roots, were proposed. In many countries the European names have now been dropped in favour of the US names. Pentillion was the name proposed for quadrillion = 1015 It would have had 15 zeros if the name had caught on.
The next several in order are: quadrillion, pentillion, hexillion, septillion, octillion. Quadrillion is higher than a trillion!
There ain't no fifthtillion. There is a pentillion. Million = ten to the 6ixth power 1 000 000 Billion = ten to the 9th power 1 000 000 000 Trillion = ten to the 12th power 1 000 000 000 Quadrillion = ten to the 15th power 1 000 000 000 000 Pentillion = ten to the 18th power 1 000 000 000 000 000 Sextillion = ten to the 21st power 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 the "sex" refers to the six groups of zeros. It goes up like sept, oct, non dec... getit? JCF Try Wikipedia. you'll learn more.