History Main / EleventyZillion

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12879191/1/The-Boy-Who-Lived-to-be-Kissed The Boy Who Lived to be Kissed]]'' Dobby refers to an occlumency book as being "ten-ten" years old. (Presumably he meant a hundred rather than twenty.)

[[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles This trope is not]] called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number imaginary numbers,]] because UsefulNotes/{{mathematics}} already have those as a concept. Those are far more useful, especially when computing the square root of a negative number, and are basically the mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics, electronics, telecommunications and signal processing.

* Timmy Mallet's children's breakfast show from TheEighties, ''Wacaday'', popularised "squillion". This recently re-emerged when UsefulNotes/NickClegg used it in one of the British prime ministerial debates.

* The S.I. prefixes for large numbers go "tera" (trillion), "peta" (quadrillion), "exa" (quintillion), "zetta" (sextillion), and "yotta" (septillion). In 2022, the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta" were officially adopted for 10^27 and 10^30. You could, theoretically, string multiple prefixes together, so a megayotta (now called quetta) would be one million yotta. The [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure length of a football field]], expressed in the super tiny unit called the Planck length, would be a little over 5 terayottaPlanck lengths.

--> Now lets's a comic like ''Sandwich Shoppe'' -- divide their forty thousand readers in half, and multiply that by sweet, bee-fresh honey. That's a '''hojillion dollars!''' Now, subtract three vanilla wafers to pay the Billy Goats Gruff, and you've got a '''hundred kabillion million dollars!'''

* The S.I. prefixes for large numbers go "tera" (trillion), "peta" (quadrillion), "exa" (quintillion), "zetta" (sextillion), and "yotta" (septillion). People can get very creative thinking up prefixes for numbers larger than these. In 2022, the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta" were officially adopted for 10^27 and 10^30. You could, theoretically, string multiple prefixes together, so a megayotta (now called quetta) would be one million yotta. The [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure length of a football field]], expressed in the super tiny unit called the Planck length, would be a little over 5 terayottaPlanck lengths.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':

* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE101Car car]]", Strong Bad ponders getting "two jillion emails every two jillion seconds", to which Strong Sad tells him that a jillion isn't a real number.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' also gives us the [=4Tst=] Annual Fall Float Parade, pronounced "firty-tirst".

* In [[TheWikiRule typical Wiki fashion]], [[http://googology.wikia.com/ Googology Wiki]] is devoted to studying and naming such numbers. Graham's number is on the ''low end'' of the numbers listed there; most are so large that they have absolutely no mathematical use. As a result, they can be more laid-back with their naming schemes than "formal" numbers -- such as, for instance, [[https://googology.wikia.org/wiki/Monster-Giant Monster-Giant]] -- but the one main requirement is that they ''do'' have to be a finite number with a definite value that can be calculated. (Even if you'd need a calculator with either tailor-made custom notation or a screen larger than the observable universe to do so.) [[DefiedTrope As such, classic ones like "zillion" and "jillion"]], along with anything involving infinity or transfinite values, are barred.

** Might actually be justified (and not just by RuleOfFunny). "Zillion" might in fact ''be'' a number in Toon, and one wonders if there's an exchange rate for "simoleons".
*** Or you could always spend them in ''VideoGame/SimCity''.

* To modern ears, ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'''s famous "1.21 jiggawatts" sounds like this, but it's really just an outdated pronunciation of "gigawatts".
** Either that or the power generated by [[ThePowerOfRock dancing 1.21 jigs]].

* In the last ''Literature/RamonaQuimby'' book, Ramona turns ten, but refers to herself as "zeroteen" because she thinks the way the first three double-digit numbers get left out of the "teens" is arbitrary and unfair.

* In ''[[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Mother 2]]'' (the Japanese Version), Porky's dad claims Ness' family owes him an unrealistic value, something equivalent to "hundred million jillion dollars". In the US version, it was changed to a realistic value of hundred thousand dollars or more. Later in the game, Ness and company acquire a diamond said to be worth a similarly unrealistic value, but the translation made it worth an even one million.
** Inversely, [[YearsTooEarly it is a gazillion years too early]] to oppose [[EldritchAbomination Giygas]]! Well, according to [[spoiler:Porky]], anyways, who used an actual number (not to be taken literally) in the Japanese version.

** ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' also gives us the [=4Tst=] Annual Fall Float Parade, pronounced "firty-tirst".

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Warhammer of Zillyhoo]] costs one zillion units of Zillium grist to [[ItemCrafting alchemize]].
** Given that John was nowhere near an alchemiter, the "ONE ZILLION" thing was probably just his imagination.
** In Act 6 it's confirmed that the Warhammer and the other Zilly-weapons (plus Dirk's Unbreakable Katana) actually do cost one zillion Zillium each. Of course, all this alchemization takes place during [[SillinessSwitch Trickster Mode]], so who knows whether that number really means anything.

** And it's implied at the end he succeeded because he got the new hat he wanted.
*** During 12 hours of night, Hinkle could have written the phrase a few thousand times at most. As a zillion is undefined, perhaps, after Hinkle had spent the whole night writing the phrase, Santa said "OK, that'll do."

* The technical name for a googol, if you were to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers extrapolate from the usual naming convention,]] would be "ten duotrigintillion", or "ten thousand sexdecillion"/"ten sexdecilliard" on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales the long scale (where a billion equals one million millions),]] or we could just say 10^100 and call it a day.
** Hilariously, the term was supposedly coined by mathematician Edward Kasner's young nephew upon being asked for a large number.
* TruthInTelevision: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_Number Graham's number]] is so ridiculously huge that we have to use [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation another notation]] to write it.
** If we were to use the normal notation, we'd need a new universe to write it, as this one is entirely too small. For a time it was the largest number ever used seriously in a mathematical proof, though it's since lost this title to other numbers.
*** We would need ''many'' universes the size of this one just to write the number for ''how much too small'' the universe is to write g1, the ''first term'' in an expansion that increases so ridiculously fast that it makes "exponential increase" look like a flat line (to give some idea, the expansion that results in g1 itself starts "3, 7.6 trillion, ..." and there are over 7.6 trillion terms in that expansion alone). Graham's number is g''64''.
** It is so ridiculously huge that the amount of information required to write it down completely in your head is enough to ''[[MySkullRunnethOver literally collapse your head into a black hole]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg&feature=relmfu This video]] gives an idea of how huge it is.

* There is an [[https://web.archive.org/web/20180301012145/http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7469 entire thread on the XKCD forums]] dedicated to creating ever larger and larger numbers. After about 5 pages of this, the numbers being thrown around make Graham's Number seem like a speck of dust in comparison. After another 10 pages... let's just say that the numbers are so large that the math to ''understand'' these numbers gets progressively harder and harder to understand.
** Probably set in motion by [[http://xkcd.com/207 this comic.]] The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function Ackermann Function]] tends to return huge values for even the smallest numbers (Website/TheOtherWiki says A(4,3) has 6.031*10^19727 digits). Now imagine Graham's number as the input. "AUGHHH" indeed. Although, this number is still provably less than g65, so it's really not actually a huge improvement...
* The S.I. prefixes for large numbers go "tera" (trillion), "peta" (quadrillion), "exa" (quintillion), "zetta" (sextillion), and "yotta" (septillion). People can get very creative thinking up prefixes for numbers larger than these.
** For the next quanitity 1000 times bigger than yotta (10^27), the prefix "hella" was proposed. The mass of the Earth, for instance, would be 6 hellagrams.
** The "hella" proposal was ultimately rejected because H already stands for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_(unit) henry]], the unit of inductance. In 2022, the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta" were officially adopted for 10^27 and 10^30.
** You could, theoretically, string multiple prefixes together, so a megayotta (now called quetta) would be one million yotta. The [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure length of a football field]], expressed in the super tiny unit called the Planck length, would be a little over 5 terayottaPlanck lengths.

* To modern ears, ''Film/BackToTheFuture'''s famous "1.21 jiggawatts" sounds like this, but it's really just an outdated pronunciation of "gigawatts".

* In ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendsForeverIssue12 #12]], Pinkie Pie says that [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood PheNOMNOMenons]] are so addictive that she "can't stop at one! Or fifty! Or a thousand! Or a million jillion! Or a kazoomazillionzillion!"

* In ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendsForeverIssue12 #12]], Pinkie Pie says that [=PheNOMNOMenons=] are so addictive that she "can't stop at one! Or fifty! Or a thousand! Or a million jillion! Or a kazoomazillionzillion!"

** For the next quanitity 1000 times bigger than yotta, the prefix "hella" was proposed. The mass of the Earth, for instance, would be 6 hellagrams.
** You could, theoretically, string multiple prefixes together, so a megayotta would be one million yotta. The [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure length of a football field]], expressed in the super tiny unit called the Planck length, would be a little over 5 terayottaPlanck lengths.

-->'''Simon''': Uh, eleventeen!
-->'''Host''': No, eleventeen is not actually a number.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': [[JackassGenie Norm the Genie]] tries to get Timmy to order a million billion jillion dollars. Timmy says he knows there's no such number as a jillion, [[WrongGenreSavvy and wishes for the billion]]. HilarityEnsues - [[spoiler:he never said they would be ''[[CounterfeitCash real]]''.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'' (1969) Forgiveness for what Professor Hinkle did comes with a rather stiff price:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Flipper Parody/Temporary Insanity/Operation: Lollipop/What Are We?": a check for 80 zillion dollars.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "The Winning Edge":

-->'''Senator 1:''' I say we fine the El Dorado Tobacco Company infinty billion dollars!
-->'''Senator 2:''' That's the spirit! But I think a real number might be more effective.

* On ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', when Kowalski is asked about a number that's less than nothing, he comes up with "neg-finity".

** In "Truth or Square", the Krusty Krab celebrates its "eleventy-seventh" anniversary.
** In "Escape from Beneath Glove World", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick ride the Catch Me "a million, zillion, jillion, dillion, cotillion times".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', the titular character is imagining [[CurbStompBattle an utterly one-sided baseball game]]. After Doug strikes out again and Patty asks Skeeter for the score, Skeeter replies, "A bajillion to nothing."

* On ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', Roy once won "one skillion dollars" while competing on a game show.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "The Big Job", Señor Senior Junior presents his ransom demands:
-->'''Señor Senior Junior:''' Hello everyone. If you are interested in having the five richest people in the world safely returned to you, you need to convey to us the sum of a bazillion zillion dollars. ''[[UnEvilLaugh (laughs)]]''
-->'''Shego (offscreen):''' That’s not a real number.
-->'''Señor Senior Junior:''' But it sounds so impressive! And don't you like my [[EvilLaugh evil chortle]]?
-->'''Shego (pushing SSJ aside):''' Hi, he's new at this. A billion dollars apiece will do just fine.
* The WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers episode, [[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan "The Six Wazillion Dollar Duck"]] lampshades this completely.
-->'''Dr. IQ High:''' [[ArtificialLimbs Those mechanic parts aren't toys.]] They cost six wazillion dollars.
-->'''Dodgers:''' Is that a lot?
-->'''Dr. IQ High:''' It's so much money that we actually had to make up a number and multiply it by six just to count it.
* The "Broadway Magic" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' had Eric Raymond offering the real amount of one million dollars to anyone who could reveal Jem's secret identity, a man from a fake sweepstakes company approached Jem with a check for one ZILLION dollars and said that the money was hers if she signed her real name.
* From ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode, "Milhouse of Sand and Fog".
-->'''Bart:''' Mom, Dad, I'd give a kajillion dollars for you two to get back together.
-->'''Homer:''' Make it 2 kajillion.
-->'''Marge:''' Homer!
-->'''Homer:''' We'll lose the first kajillion to taxes.

** In "The Inconveniencing", after Mabel starts hallucinating from eating too much [[GRatedDrug Smile Dip]].

** In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Blendin Blandin is a time agent from the year 207̃0[[ExtyYearsFromPublication 12]] (pronounced "twenty-snyeventy-twelve").
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Normal Boy", Jimmy becomes dimwitted and during school, he answers a math problem (what's the square root of 144?) with "eleventy-six".

-->'''News Anchor''': World markets rose sharply again on the shipping of the Dethklok album, which is expected to give a huge boost to the economy. As a result, the U.S. Treasury issued a new denomination of currency; the Klokillion. That's one million krillions, folks!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Five More Short Graybles", the storyteller informs the viewer that the theme of the episode can't be the five fingers because [[FourFingeredHands nobody's had five fingers for over "20 mabillion glables".]]
* In the episode "Assisted Suicide" of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Eros and Thanatos argue over whether "quadrillion" is a real number. ([[EskimosArentReal It is.]] 10[[superscript:15]] in short scale, or 10[[superscript:24]] in long scale.)
* In the episode "Terminal Stimpy" of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', Stimpy attempts to count how many of his [[CatsHaveNineLives nine lives]] he has lost. Being [[TheDitz Stimpy]], he answers with "sixty-twelve" (while holding up three fingers), to which Ren corrects him that it's seven.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil Star vs. the Forces of Evil]]'': In order to re-open the Bounce Lounge in the titular episode, the gang must raise a bagillion dollars. [[OnlySaneMan Marco]] even lampshades it, saying that he doesn’t think that that’s a real number.

* In ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' TheTimeOfMyths Bow-Zar the Barkbarian comes from is "a zillion years ago".

* In ''FanFic/MyImmortal'', Enoby shoots Snap and Loopin a gazillion times with her gun. [[GunsAreWorthless This only manages to break the video camera.]]

*** Or you could always spend them in VideoGame/SimCity.

* There was a series of sketches on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' parodying ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' and one of the songs parodied was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHYtYE8_bzU&feature=related "Three is a Magic Number."]] The lyrics went like:

* When [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]], and [[WebComic/PennyArcade Tycho]] argue over whose website gets more hits per month in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'', [[{{Jerkass}} Strong]] {{Bad|butt}} argues that Tycho's gets about a few blajillion. On Monday, several katillion hits. On Tuesday, [[OverlyLongGag half a blazill-illion.]]

-->'''Dipper:''' Mabel, how many of these did you eat?!\\

* [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil Star vs. the Forces of Evil]]: In order to re-open the Bounce Lounge in the titular episode, the gang must raise a bagillion dollars. [[OnlySaneMan Marco]] even lampshades it, saying that he doesn’t think that that’s a real number.

** In an operation at an ice cream factory, Numbuh Three finally finds a thermostat and promptly cranks it to the "Like eleventy bajillion degrees!" setting.

** In fact, the number "eleventy billon" is thrown around quite frequently, presumably meaning 110×10[[superscript:9]], or 110,000,000,000. Even ''Father'' says it in ''WesternAnimation/OperationZERO''.

* Parodied in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', in a [[{{Calvinball}} Numberwang]] sketch where an "Imaginary Numbers" round is played. Somehow, while "Twentington" and "Frilve hundred and Neeb" are accepted, "Shinty-six" (depicted as fifty-six with a reversed five) is rejected as a real number, as in the popular phrase, "I only have shinty-six days left to live." A sketch during their live tour (also adapted into a CelebrityEdition for the BBC's Comic Relief telethon) had a "no numbers" round which similarly rejected "Brazil" as being a number, as in "Brazil Britons are feared to be among the dead."

* In [[MemeticMutation a meme]] [[Memes/Morbius2022 that was spawned by]] Film/Morbius2022, some people state the movie made so much money, a new number named after Morbius had to be invented called Morbillion.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E6AFishfulOfDollars A Fishful of Dollars]]", Fry is bidding against [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mom]] for the last can of anchovies on Earth and tries to bid one jillion dollars (see page quote). He settles for 50 million instead.

* The real numbers using the "-illion" suffix themselves qualified at one point. "Million" comes from the Italian ''Millione'', which is the superlative suffix ''-one'' applied to ''mille'' (thousand), giving it a literal meaning of "super thousand". As such, other words ending in "-illion" were not attaching to an existing root word (at the time), but we're {{Portmanteau}}s. The first recorded use of "billion", mashing up "bi-" with "million" to indicate "a million to the second power"[[note]]on the now-seldom-used long scale, at least[[/note]] dates to 1690, and from there, the pattern stuck.

[[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles This trope is not]] called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number imaginary numbers]], because UsefulNotes/{{mathematics}} already have those as a concept. Those are far more useful, especially when computing the square root of a negative number, and are basically the mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics, electronics, telecommunications and signal processing.

-->''"I can't watch these people spend a gazillion dollars on [[spoiler: a wedding]] when half the world is starving."''

** When Calvin asks Hobbes for help with his math homework, Hobbes notes that it requires calculus and imaginary numbers, "You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve, and all those." ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number Imaginary numbers]], by the way, are a real mathematical concept, [[RightForTheWrongReasons but not the way Hobbes puts it]].)

** Inversely, [[YearsTooEarly it is a gazillion years too early]] to oppose [[EldritchAbomination Giygas]]! Well, according to [[spoiler: Porky]], anyways, who used an actual number (not to be taken literally) in the Japanese version.

* The technical name for a googol, if you were to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers extrapolate from the usual naming convention]], would be "ten duotrigintillion", or "ten thousand sexdecillion"/"ten sexdecilliard" on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales the long scale (where a billion equals one million millions)]], or we could just say 10^100 and call it a day.

** Probably set in motion by [[http://xkcd.com/207/ this comic]]. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function Ackermann Function]] tends to return huge values for even the smallest numbers (Website/TheOtherWiki says A(4,3) has 6.031*10^19727 digits). Now imagine Graham's number as the input. "AUGHHH" indeed. Although, this number is still provably less than g65, so it's really not actually a huge improvement...