Talk:Centillion

Inverse factorial

What is the inverse factorial of a centillion?? That is, what number is x approximately equal to when x! is a centillion?? 66.245.95.56

$168!=2.53x10^{302}$ (American) and $294!=4.4x10^{599}$ (European). Rt66lt 21:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

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How is this the largest number to have a name? On the "names of large numbers" page, googolplex is listed (correctly)after this number in size. 64.126.190.197 14:18, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

My understanding of this is that a googolplex is not an "official" name, whereas centillion is. "Googol" and "googlplex" are coined names, million, billion, trillion, etc. (to centillion) are based on a system.Rt66lt 05:07, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Centillion

Its seems, based on this article, that a centillion is more than everything but less than infinity.

Sean7phil (talk) 19:17, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

"The total number of atoms (or even subatomic particles) in the entire universe does not even come near to either value of a centillion."

A sourceless claim, unprovable at this time, and irrelevant. I'm removing it.

--24.7.220.175 (talk) 05:03, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I've heard 10^80 being a loose estimate of the number of atoms in the universe, although if you were to take into account all subatomic particles, the number is definitely a lot higher, although I cannot give an estimate. If you consider all leptons, quarks, and bosons as subatomic particles, and then the composite particles they make up. I do not doubt that there are less than centillion subatomic particles in the universe, my point being is that we do not know this, we cannot know this (what's the definition of a universe? What if there are infinite many other universes?), and whoever put this in the text or whoever they heard it from likely made the claim up.

Also, do not remove parts from talk pages, who ever did that.

--24.7.220.175 (talk) 20:08, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Seriously, Wikipedia?

"Centillion is a big number."

Huh. That's interesting, but completely worthless as a piece of information.

"In Canadian and U.S. usage, two centillion is 10^303+10^303."

So, in those two countries, two of something is equal to one of that thing added to another of that thing. What an amazing coincidence!

Is there any rational explanation for writing the article this way?

Billytrousers (talk) 07:14, 3 December 2011 (UTC)