1231.00 Cosmic lllions

1231.01 Western-world humans are no longer spontaneously cognizant of the Greek or Latin number prefixes like dec-, or non-, or oct-, nor are they able spontaneously to formulate in appropriate Latin or Greek terms the larger numbers spoken of by scientists nowadays only as powers often. On the other hand, we are indeed familiar with the Anglo-American words one, two, and three, wherefore we may prefix these more familiar designations to the constant illion, suffix which we will now always equate with a set of three successive zeros. (See Table 1238.80.)

1231.02 We used to call 1,000 one thousand. We will now call it one-illion. Each additional set of three zeros is recognized by the prefixed number of such three-zero sets. 1,000,000 = two-illion. 1,000,000,000 is 1 three-illion. (This is always hyphenated to avoid confusion with the set of sub-illion enumerators, e.g., 206 four-illions.) The English identified illions only with six zero additions, while the Americans used illions for every three zeros, starting, however, only after 1,000, overlooking its three zeros as common to all of them. Both the English and American systems thus were forced to use awkward nomenclature by retaining the initial word thousand as belonging to a different concept and an historically earlier time. Using our consistent illion nomenclature, we express the largest experientially conceivable measurement, which is the diameter of the thus-far-observed Universe measured in diameters of the nucleus of the atom, which measurement is a neat 312 fourteen-illions. (See Sec. 1238.50.)