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- noun Plural form of
quintillion .
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Examples
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Frank Templeton, a retired Wall Street equities trader, bought "quintillions of Zimbabwe dollars" through a broker from Zimbabwe's central bank.
How to Turn 100 Trillion Dollars Into Five and Feel Good About It Patrick McGroarty 2011
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You can't tell what an individual molecule is going to do, but if you deal with trillions and quadrillions and quintillions, you can tell very accurately what they're going to do on average.
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Penrose has fallen into the trap of thinking that God's selection of the Big Bang's initial state would be like God picking out one straw out of a barrel of untold quintillions of straws, and having to get it just right, or else we wouldn't exist.
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The Earth, after all, probably has quintillions of dollars worth wealth if you count all the molten minerals of the mantle and core.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Buzz Aldrin on the Need for Private Property Rights in Space: 2009
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With inflation running at over 231 million per cent, and goods now being priced in quintillions of dollars (18 zeroes), it was happy to offload that dossier.
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And he praises the world's "quintillions of tons of life-giving water" -- some of which he watches "purl in languorous eddies under the plank bridge across Queset Brook."
Five Best 2007
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This fluid mass comprises two billions two hundred and fifty millions of cubic miles, forming a spherical body of a diameter of sixty leagues, the weight of which would be three quintillions of tons.
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But I knew also that twenty letters alone could form two quintillions, four hundred and thirty-two quadrillions, nine hundred and two trillions, eight billions, a hundred and seventy-six millions, six hundred and forty thousand combinations.
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Would they all be farming worlds to feed one homeworld with a population approaching quintillions?
Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994
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Ten thousand years, ten thousand worlds, quintillions of children, and they all knew the poem, they all did the dance.
Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990
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