What Comes After a Trillion?
What comes after a trillion is actually 1,000,000,000,001 but I assume you mean what is the next “step up” in terms of the next terminology, so then it’s a quadrillion, which is a thousand billion which is written like this: 1,000,000,000,000,000. Here is some more info for you about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrillion Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
Other contributors are correct if you mean what comes immediately after a trillion – and that is a trillion and one! For a leap, such as from units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc., other contributors mention quadrillion, etc. as one particular stage. That’s O.K., I think. You can always add whatever you wish to ‘trillion’ e.g. two trillion, three trillion … 99 trillion. When we go further than this, we are in the realms of speculation, unless you wish to use ‘trillion’ as a base and then add anything before it e.g. 500 trillion or a trillion trillion. If you mean is there a much higher number, perhaps reflecting infinity, this question was also raised years ago by the then five year old daughter of the late scientist, Dr Carl Sagan (of ‘Contact’ fame). Dr Sagan described the scene on T.V. years ago, before he died of cancer. He asked his daughter what she would call the highest possible number and she invented a word – googlaplex (Nothing to do with Google, the search engine!) I hav
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