User talk:Ian Franklin McLean

Your recent edits to Names of large numbers

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you find the site to your liking and decide to stay.

Now, on to the matter at hand. Your recent edits to Names of large numbers have been seen as unconstructive and have been reverted. Need I say, reverted AGAIN. The number "trintillion" is not a real number -- quit insisting that it is, or else provide a RELIABLE SOURCE to back up your claim. If you continue to make such unsourced edits, you may be blocked from editing.

Thank you for your time. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or leave a message on the article's talkpage and someone will be glad to answer. Black Yoshi (Yoshi! | Yoshi's Eggs) 02:21, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Names of large numbers. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.

In particular, the three-revert rule states that:

Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 07:14, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Trintillion

Hello again. Regarding your message on my talkpage: that is not a good reason to change the number. "Decicentillion" is derived from the Latin prefix meaning "110" ("deci-" = 10, "cent-" = 100); it's an extension of "centillion," much like "undecillion" is an extention of "decillion."

Trintillion, on the other hand, isn't a number -- it's the name of some resources company based out in California. I've seen websites which use it as a number, but they're just using it in the same vain as "zillion" -- that is, "filler numbers".

My point is this: changing a real number to one that isn't real is considered vandalism, and it needs to stop. If you continue to do this, you may be blocked from editing. Black Yoshi (Yoshi! | Yoshi's Eggs) 12:57, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This makes no sense why decicentillion is 10^333. It is a stupid name.

Sorry -- forgot the last bit. The Latin prefix means 110, right? Since the value we're looking for is in the short scale, we add one, and multiply the result by three. So, (110 + 1) * 3 = 111 * 3 = 333. Black Yoshi (Yoshi! | Yoshi's Eggs) 13:39, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]