Talk:2091: Million, Billion, Trillion
Revision as of 05:32, 28 December 2018 by 172.68.86.64 (talk) (Assert the merits of a square-based number naming system)
I actually think we have too many names for large numbers. It's really only necessary to introduce a new name when you reach the square of the previous name. So, we'd still have tens and hundreds, but there's no need for "one thousand, one hundred" when you can just have "eleven hundred". We'd be better off just naming 10^4, 10^8, 10^16, 10^32, and that's already well beyond anything needed for normal usage, with only a handful of names. None of this "quattuordecillion" stuff that no-one can remember without sitting down and working it out. 172.68.86.64 05:32, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
