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| 4 | [[quoteright:311:[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eleventy_zillion_0.jpg]]]] |
| 5 | [[caption-width-right:311:It took him [[SelfDemonstratingArticle eleventeen]] days to count it.]] |
| 6 | ->'''Fry:''' One. Jillion. Dollars.\ |
| 7 | ''[audience gasps]''\ |
| 8 | '''Auctioneer:''' Sir, that's not a number.\ |
| 9 | ''[audience gasps harder]'' |
| 10 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E6AFishfulOfDollars A Fishful of Dollars]]" |
| 11 | |
| 12 | When your notation isn't enough, it's better to make up new numbers on the spot. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | '''Has two popular varieties:''' |
| 15 | * Using zillions, skyrillions and other such words as real (but ridiculously high) numbers. Often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. |
| 16 | * Just making up numbers when their correct meaning may be guessed: for example, "eleventy" must be 110. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Of course, there are plenty of ''real'' large numbers ending in -illion, usually formed with boring Latin prefixes - Website/TheOtherWiki, as always, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers has a list.]] Most are just non identifiable by the layman. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | RidiculousFutureInflation can be a cause of this. Usually a ComedyTrope. Justified when a character really uses another notation, or when he ''has'' to make a number up because what he's describing is even bigger than a googolplex.[[note]]The highest rank in the "official" notation compiled by Website/TheOtherWiki.[[/note]] For money, compare ZillionDollarBill and contrast UndisclosedFunds. For units of measurement, compare FantasticMeasurementSystem. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles This trope is not]] called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number imaginary numbers,]] because UsefulNotes/{{mathematics}} already has 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. |
| 23 | ---- |
| 24 | !!Examples: |
| 25 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:ComicBooks]] |
| 28 | * Frequently in ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': |
| 29 | ** Scrooge [=McDuck's=] fortune is always measured in "fantasticatillions", "obsquatumatillions", etc. -- often ending in "... and sixteen cents" (the page image is an exception). |
| 30 | ** In the climax of "The Crazy Quiz Show", Donald Duck's final question (and his UnexpectedlyObscureAnswer) was the following: |
| 31 | --->'''Q:''' How many drops of water pass over Niagara Falls in a week?\ |
| 32 | '''A:''' [[LudicrousPrecision Nine trillion multipadillion, six hundred and eighty-six squadrificillion, fifty octodecimadillion, eight hundred and sixty-three centrifipillion, nine hundred and forty overplusillion, six hundred and five duplicatillion, thirty-three impossibadillion, seven hundred and ninety-one compounded ultrafatillion, three hundred and forty super trillion, fifty-nine duper dillion, twenty-nine billion, seven hundred and fifty million, four hundred and six thousand, five hundred and thirty-three drops.]] |
| 33 | * The ninth issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' comic book published by defunct Creator/MarvelComics subsidiary Star Comics had the villains demand payment of twenty-seven quillion dollars. |
| 34 | * In the 12th issue of ''Cartoon Cartoons'', the story "Beware the R.O.B.A.A.T." has [[WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity General Specific]] state "I'm not the one who spent a kajillion dollars on this ashtray" before correcting himself and remembering that he ''did'' spend that much on an ashtray in response to Private Public complaining about how expensive it will be to continue purchasing the upgrades they need for the R.O.B.A.A.T. to do the most basic of functions. |
| 35 | * In ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' TheTimeOfMyths Bow-Zar the Barkbarian comes from is "a zillion years ago". |
| 36 | * In the backup story for ''ComicBook/{{Annihilators}}: Earthfall'', Mojo claims that his new TV show about Rocket Raccoon and Groot is going to make him "a gazillionty thrillion" galactic dollars, and that "that's a ''real'' number in actual math!" |
| 37 | * ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': The monster Mangog often boasts about having the power of a billion billion beings. |
| 38 | * In ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendsForeverIssue12 #12]], Pinkie Pie says [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood PheNOMNOMenons]] are so [[GRatedDrug addictive]] that she "can't stop at one! Or fifty! Or a thousand! Or a million jillion! Or a kazoomazillionzillion!" |
| 39 | [[/folder]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[folder:Commercials]] |
| 42 | * "Did you know women prefer Old Spice for their men one bajillion times more than ladies' scented body washes? [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Did you know that I'm riding this horse backwards?]] Hyah!" |
| 43 | * There's an ING commercial where one man is carrying around a sign that reads 1.2 million dollars, which is the amount that he knows he needs to have to live comfortably in retirement. His next-door neighbor has a sign that says "A Gazillion" to illustrate that he doesn't know what he requires for retirement and thus needs the company's services. |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 47 | * In ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', Enoby shoots Snap and Loopin a gazillion times with her gun. [[GunsAreWorthless This only manages to break the video camera.]] |
| 48 | * Parodied and subverted in ''WebVideo/YuYuHakushoAbridged''. |
| 49 | -->'''Sakyo''': $20 billion on the intruders. |
| 50 | -->'''Tarukune''': Sakyo, quit bustin' my balls. Stop makin' up numbers. |
| 51 | -->'''Giles''': A billion ''is'' a real number, sir. |
| 52 | -->'''Tarukune''': I've just been informed that a billion is a real number. |
| 53 | * ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': Thunderstorm mentions he could make a zillion [[KillerRobot Shadow]] [[MesACrowd clones]] using a portal. |
| 54 | * In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Mister Mxyzptlk says he's been around for millions, or billions, or jillions of years. [[TimeAbyss He admits that he can't remember exactly how old he is.]] |
| 55 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11446408/3/Wishing-on-a-Sticker Wishing on a Sticker]]'': |
| 56 | -->Harry felt the back and top and sides of his head, thinking that he must've missed a lump somewhere, because if he hadn't, then he was as crazy as the Dursleys said that Mrs. Figg, with her gagillion cats, was. The thought didn't scare him as much as he should, which, to Harry, was proof enough of his craziness. |
| 57 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8428333/1/First-Day-of-School First Day of School]]'' Harry's cousin Dudley boasts that he can count to eleventy. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 61 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': |
| 62 | -->'''Hades:''' Uh, yeah, Poseidon, about a zillion times... |
| 63 | * At the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', the wanted poster of Mr. Potato Head shows the "$50 bzillion" [sic] reward. Of course, the drawing was done by a six-year-old boy. |
| 64 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'': Captain Metalbeard describes Lord Business's office as being on the "infinityth floor" of the Octan Tower. |
| 65 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Priya says that "tickets to 4*Town are, like, a bajillion dollars". |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 69 | * ''Film/{{Duplex}}'' |
| 70 | -->'''Nancy Kendricks:''' Well it's going to be worth a bazillion times that. |
| 71 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' |
| 72 | -->'''Eddie Valiant:''' We were investigating a robbery at the First National Bank of Toontown. [snip] Anyway, this guy got away with a zillion simoleons. |
| 73 | * ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' |
| 74 | -->'''The Chief:''' Didn't you cause about a ba-zillion dollars worth of damage? |
| 75 | * ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' (also used in [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the book]]). |
| 76 | -->'''Trooper:''' Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em! |
| 77 | * ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': To modern ears, the movie's famous "1.21 jiggawatts" sounds like this, but it's really just an outdated pronunciation of "gigawatts". |
| 78 | * ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': Continuing the series-wide RunningGag of Dr. Evil [[InflationNegation not understanding inflation]], he holds the world hostage for "1 billion, gagillion, fafillion, shabolubalu million illion yillion...yen". The U.N. deems it a reasonable price. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 82 | * ''Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning. He told Bush that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq. To everyone's amazement, all of the colour ran from Bush's face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost whimpering. Finally, he composed himself and asked Rumsfeld, "Just exactly how many is a brazillion?"'' |
| 83 | * During the preparation to the 2014 Sochi ''UsefulNotes/OlympicGames'', due to the enormous amount of funds spent (a lot of them stolen as befits Russian tradition), "Olympiard" became memetic. The exact amount is still debated, but a common joke was that it equals a thousand spizdillions (spizdili is an obscene Russian word for ''[they] have stolen''). |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 87 | * In ''[[Literature/AdrianMole Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction]]'', Adrian tries to convince his accountant that his substantial debt isn't a big deal by pointing out that there are "7 zillion trillion stars" in the sky and writing out the number in full, which he writes as a 7 followed by 21 zeros. This would give a zillion the value of a billion if Adrian is using the short scale, or a thousand if he is using the long scale. |
| 88 | * ''Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars'' by Paula Danzinger. |
| 89 | * From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Bilbo proclaims, "Today is my 111st birthday: I am eleventy-one today!"[[note]]It's 'st' instead of 'th' because hobbits say 'eleventy-first'[[/note]] The term is apparently normal for hobbits, who live longer than humans. It's derived from Old English: ''hund endleofantig''). |
| 90 | * In ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', the Krikkit Wars apparently resulted in two grillion casualties. |
| 91 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' |
| 92 | ** A conversation in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'' between Magrat and a rather bratty Literature/LittleRedRidingHood: |
| 93 | -->"Bet you a million trillion zillion dollars you can't turn that bush into a pumpkin," said the child. |
| 94 | -->... |
| 95 | -->"Nothing. Just thinking. And you owe me a million trillion zillion squillion dollars." |
| 96 | ** A variation in ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'', in which imaginary numbers are parodied with the Bursar suggesting that there's an extra number between three and four called 'umpt'. A StealthPun about 'umpteen', umpt presumably being that minus ten. |
| 97 | * Creator/DaveBarry once proposed that Congress should use the "Whomptillion", defined as "an amount of money so huge that every time a Congressman says the word, your taxes go up 5%". |
| 98 | * ''Literature/RamonaQuimby'': |
| 99 | ** In the last 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. |
| 100 | ** In ''Beezus and Ramona'', when she's five, she weighs herself and comes up with "fifty-eleven pounds". |
| 101 | * In ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'', France's sale notice for the Louisiana territory describes its size as "approx. 34 hillion jillion acres". |
| 102 | * The novel ''{{Literature/Blasphemy}}'' by Creator/RichardPreston mentions God Numbers and reveals one of them that is used to represent the "fullness of time" that will be needed for the universe to reach its "final state". |
| 103 | --> It will be a number of years equal to ten factorial raised to the ten factorial power, that number raised to the ten factorial power, that number raised to the ten factorial power, this power relation repeated 10^83 times, and then the resulting number raised to its own factorial power 10^47 times, as above.[[note]]10! alone is over 3.6 million, raising it to its own power even once creates a mind-boggling large number, 10^10,000,000. The full number would probably have more zeros than they're quarks in a google worth of universes.[[/note]] |
| 104 | * Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/CatchThatRabbit": When Powell is emphasizing how many parts of DV-5 could be responsible for the conflict in this story, he says there's "upty-ump thousand other individual pieces of complexity that can be wrong." |
| 105 | * At one point in ''Literature/CrazyRichAsians'', Micheal uses the number gazillion: |
| 106 | -->''"I can't watch these people spend a gazillion dollars on [[spoiler:a wedding]] when half the world is starving."'' |
| 107 | %%** ''China Rich Girlfriend'': "Squillionaire" is used. |
| 108 | * ''Literature/DrSeusssSleepBook'': At the end of the book, "99 zillion 9 trillion and 2" animals are asleep. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 112 | * ''Series/TheCosbyShow'': |
| 113 | ** "It's All in the Game" |
| 114 | -->'''Cliff Huxtable:''' Do you know just how much it's going to cost to fix the washing machine? A bazillion dollars. |
| 115 | ** "Denise Kendall: Navy Wife" |
| 116 | -->'''Cliff Huxtable:''' There is a zillion skillion babies in Heaven. |
| 117 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': |
| 118 | ** ''Celebrity Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' [[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99qjeopardy.phtml Tobey Maguire was playing Keanu Reeves]]: |
| 119 | -->'''Alex Trebek:''' [to Keanu] Let's see what you wagered: Eleventy billion dollars. That's not even a real number. |
| 120 | -->'''Keanu Reeves:''' Yet. |
| 121 | ** In another episode, Alex threw out the final category and told the contestants to write down any number at all in order to win. Jimmy Fallon's French Stewart went with "threeve" and then wagered "$Texas." |
| 122 | * Tubbs, the CloudCuckooLander shop owner of ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen '' counts everything as “twelvty”. [[VillainousIncest Her husband Edward]] does not appear to notice. |
| 123 | * Parodied in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', in a [[{{Calvinball}} Numberwang]] sketch where an "Imaginary Numbers" round is played. While "Twentington" and "Frilve hundred and Neeb" are accepted, "Shinty-six" (depicted as fifty-six with a reversed five) is rejected as being 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." |
| 124 | * Timmy Mallet's children's breakfast show from TheEighties, ''Series/{{Wacaday}}'', popularised "squillion". This recently re-emerged when UsefulNotes/NickClegg used it in one of the British prime ministerial debates. |
| 125 | * In the episode "Culture for the Masses" in ''Series/TheGoodies'', Tim buys a painting at an auction for "one million billion quintillion zillion pounds and two and a half new pence", which it goes without saying that he does not have. They leave thirteen pence as a deposit. By ContrivedCoincidence, the National Gallery has all their paintings insured for exactly one million billion quintillion zillion pounds. HilarityEnsues. |
| 126 | * The TV Series of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'' extends a line of dialogue from the book and puts in a new number: |
| 127 | -->'''Ford Prefect:''' I think this ship is brand-new, Arthur. |
| 128 | -->'''Arthur Dent:''' Why, have you got some exotic device for measuring the age of metal? |
| 129 | -->'''Ford Prefect:''' No. I just found this sales brochure on the floor. It says, "The Universe can be yours for a mere five quilliard Altairian dollars." |
| 130 | -->'''Arthur Dent:''' Cheap? |
| 131 | -->'''Ford Prefect:''' A quilliard is a whole page full of [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish noughts]] [''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanEnglish zeros]]''] with a one at the beginning. |
| 132 | * ''Series/MrShow'' featured a sketch set in the 1890s which revolved around a marching band competition judged by the "Eleventy-Twelfth President of the United States". |
| 133 | * There was a series of sketches on ''Series/MadTV1995'' 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: |
| 134 | -->''3, 6, 9'' |
| 135 | -->''12, 47, 90'' |
| 136 | -->''Something, next, 100'' |
| 137 | -->''3 times 10 is -2'' |
| 138 | -->''3 times 5 is elevendy'' |
| 139 | -->''3 times 2 is I dunno'' |
| 140 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': "I would bet you a gazillion dollars -- no, I'm even more confident -- I would bet you a ''floppity-jillion'' dollars." |
| 141 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': "Eleventy" is used in one episode, with Lennier mentioning his "eleventy-fifth year" of religious caste training. [[WordOfGod According to JMS]], this is actually an aversion, and "eleventy-fifth" is "sixteenth" as expressed in Minbari base-eleven style (though poor Londo looked as bored as if he ''had'' been listening to 115 years' worth of anecdotes). |
| 142 | * ''Series/SiliconValley'': Elrich Bachman, trying to prove he understands binary: "Jesus Christ, I memorized the hexadecimal times tables when I was fourteen writing machine code. Okay? Ask me what nine times F is. It’s fleventy-five." (In fact, 9*F in hexadecimal is 87 hex). |
| 143 | * ''Series/OddSquad'': Glenn, who owns a new cupcake shop in town, boasts about having "one million billion trillion" flavors. One would think that he's just exaggerating, but then Olive and Otto visit the Mathroom, where Olive brings up what he said...and what ensues is every single paper fortune unfolding to reveal a single one and many, ''many'' zeroes. |
| 144 | --> '''Otto:''' That's...a ''lot''...of zeroes. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 148 | * Music/JayZ's "Allure": |
| 149 | --> "The game is a light bulb with eleventy-million volts" |
| 150 | * Music/{{Usher}}'s "Burn" has this: |
| 151 | --> "It's been fifty-eleven days, umpteen hours,\ |
| 152 | I'm gonna be burnin' 'til you return!" |
| 153 | * The Music/JohnDenver song "Grandma's Feather Bed" says the bed "was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese." |
| 154 | [[/folder]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 157 | * ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': |
| 158 | ** On a math test, Calvin asks Susie for an answer, and she responds "three hundred billion gazillion." This is then lampshaded, as Calvin proceeds to snark her for giving such a "helpful" answer. Susie then follows up by saying that it's a 3, followed by 85 zeroes, and Calvin writes it down. |
| 159 | ** Spaceman Spiff also tends to use these kinds of "-illion" numbers. |
| 160 | ** 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]].) |
| 161 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': The marketing team coined "frooglepoopillion" to describe how much money the company lost, and it shows up in a few later strips. In another strip, the company initially gave its earnings as "a few frillion". |
| 162 | * ''ComicStrip/BigNate'': An answer Francis gave to Nate (33 jillion) as a response to a math question he clearly hadn't yet answered, which he mindlessly agreed to and [[BlatantLies said he got the exact same thing]]. |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 166 | * ''Pinball/DrDude'' boasts of having {{Pinball}}'s first-ever ''Gazillion'' Jackpot. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 170 | * ''Series/DeadRingers:'' |
| 171 | ** Rio Ferdinand's thing is giving bizarrely high statistical probabilities. If Gary Lineker is lucky, those are real numbers, but sometimes Rio will come out with eleventy trillion. |
| 172 | ** Priti Patel seems incapable of using real numbers in any circumstances. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 176 | * In "The Rain Song" from ''Theatre/OneTenInTheShade'', Starbuck boasts that he knows "forty-'leven different methods" for bringing rain. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 180 | * The [[VideoGame/BillyVsSNAKEMAN Eleventy Billionth HoKage]] insists that "eleventy" means "[[LogicBomb eleven more than everything]]" |
| 181 | * ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' |
| 182 | ** One selling point of was ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'' its "87 bazillion" guns. The actual number of weapon combinations is quite high but doesn't even come close to the "billion" moniker. |
| 183 | ** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': As the sales pitch says, ''"87 bazillion guns" just got BAZILLIONDIER.'' |
| 184 | * ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': In 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. |
| 185 | * 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.]] |
| 186 | * According to ''VideoGame/NGUIdle'', one thousand centillion (or CENTILLION, since the game writes it in capitals) is a SUPERCENTILLION (also capitals). |
| 187 | * In ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'', the goal of the second level is to make it into the high rollers' lounge, which is apparently exclusive to gazillionares, then [[MovingTheGoalposts double-gazillionares and finally triple-gazillionares]]. Thankfully, this is a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, so it's doable with some problem-solving. |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 191 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': |
| 192 | ** 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. |
| 193 | ** The [=4Tst=] Annual Fall Float Parade, pronounced "firty-tirst". |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 197 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Warhammer of Zillyhoo]] costs one zillion units of Zillium grist to [[ItemCrafting alchemize]]. 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. |
| 198 | * [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/22/magic-its-whats-for-dinner# This]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip satirizes the idea Creator/ScottMcCloud proposed in ''[[ComicBook/UnderstandingComics Reinventing Comics]]'': if there were some kind of online financial infrastructure that could process transactions as small as a few US cents, webcomics could monetize their content by charging readers [[{{Microtransactions}} a few cents per page view]]. |
| 199 | --> Now lets's take 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!''' |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 203 | * [[WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob Insanity Prawn Boy]] likes to use the number "fifty-twelve". Incidentally, he lives in apartment 512. |
| 204 | * According to the first episode of ''WebVideo/OuranTheVaguelyAbridgedSeries'', Haruhi Fujioka needs "eight million jillion quadrillion malalalalilion shoo-ba-da-da-do-bop-bop-ian" in order to pay off a broken vase. Also note that value doesn't have a currency attached to it. |
| 205 | * From ''[[http://www.rogermwilcox.com/century.html That Wacky Century]]'': |
| 206 | -->'''1918''' – Britain and France blame World War I on Germany, and require them to pay a hillion jillion Deutschmarks in reparations; Germany accomplishes this by printing a hillion 1-jillion-Deutschmark bills. |
| 207 | * Gröûp X can count all the way to scfifty-five. |
| 208 | * ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' features wonderful numbers like the Bazillion or the Hyperbolillion. |
| 209 | * According to ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'', the universe was "about a kjghpillion degrees" shortly after the Big Bang. |
| 210 | * An online parody of real estate shows is called ''Bajillion Dollar Propertie$''. |
| 211 | * In WebAnimation/EpithetErased, Giovanni gets trapped in a prison made by Indus. To get out, Giovanni tells him about his "ten-hundred" minions, and in exchange, asks Indus to let them out. This works. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 215 | * ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks'': We get one of these from a hypnotised Simon. during a quiz. |
| 216 | -->'''Simon:''' Uh, eleventeen!\ |
| 217 | '''Host:''' No, eleventeen is not actually a number. |
| 218 | * ''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]]. [[spoiler:He never said they would be ''[[CounterfeitCash real]]''.]] |
| 219 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'', forgiveness for what Professor Hinkle did comes with a rather stiff price: |
| 220 | -->'''SantaClaus:''' Now you go home and write "I am very sorry for what I did to Frosty" 100 zillion times. |
| 221 | * ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'' is set "735 squillion" (plus a few million) years in the future, according to the first episode's opening narration. |
| 222 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode6 Flipper Parody/Temporary Insanity/Operation: Lollipop/What Are We?]]" has a check for 80 zillion dollars. |
| 223 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS1E5TheWinningEdge The Winning Edge]]": |
| 224 | -->'''Batman:''' Come on, he must be a zillion years old. |
| 225 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 226 | -->'''Senator 1:''' I say we fine the El Dorado Tobacco Company infinty billion dollars!\ |
| 227 | '''Senator 2:''' That's the spirit! But I think a real number might be more effective. |
| 228 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': |
| 229 | ** In an operation at an ice cream factory, Numbuh Three finally finds a thermostat and promptly cranks it to the "Like, eleventy-billion degrees!" setting. |
| 230 | ** There's a villain who always says he wants a buh-million dollars (denoted as $BUH.000.000). |
| 231 | ** 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''. |
| 232 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', when Kowalski is asked about a number that's less than nothing, he comes up with "neg-finity". |
| 233 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 234 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS6E2324TruthOrSquare Truth or Square]]", the Krusty Krab celebrates its "eleventy-seventh" anniversary. |
| 235 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E24EscapeFromBeneathGloveWorld Escape from Beneath Glove World]]", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick ride the Catch Me "a million, zillion, jillion, dillion, cotillion times". |
| 236 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': |
| 237 | ** In one episode, Doug 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." |
| 238 | ** Another episode titled "Doug's Mail Order Mania" featured a sweepstakes with prize money of a zillion, or so high, the number literally does on for ''pages''. Specifically, it shows one followed by '''1,722''' zeroes. [[CaptainObvious It turns out to be fradulent.]] |
| 239 | * 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. He settles for 50 million instead. |
| 240 | * ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In ''U.S. Acres'', Roy once won "one skillion dollars" while competing on a game show. |
| 241 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when asked by Lucius how many times Beezy has saved his life, Beezy says "Twe-leven!" |
| 242 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS4E2TheBigJob The Big Job]]", Señor Senior Junior presents his ransom demands: |
| 243 | -->'''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]]]''\ |
| 244 | '''Shego:''' ''[offscreen]'' That's not a real number.\ |
| 245 | '''Señor Senior Junior:''' But it sounds so impressive! And don't you like my [[EvilLaugh evil chortle]]?\ |
| 246 | '''Shego:''' ''[pushing SSJ aside]'' Hi, he's new at this. A billion dollars apiece will do just fine. |
| 247 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode "[[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan The Six Wazillion Dollar Duck]]" lampshades this completely. |
| 248 | -->'''Dr. IQ High:''' Those [[ArtificialLimbs mechanic parts]] aren't toys. They cost six wazillion dollars.\ |
| 249 | '''Dodgers:''' Is that a lot?\ |
| 250 | '''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. |
| 251 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' episode "Broadway Magic" has Eric Raymond offering the real amount of one million dollars to anyone who can reveal Jem's secret identity. A man from a fake sweepstakes company approaches Jem with a check for one ''zillion'' dollars and says that the money is hers if she signs her real name. |
| 252 | * From ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E3MilhouseOfSandAndFog Milhouse of Sand and Fog]]": |
| 253 | -->'''Bart:''' Mom, Dad, I'd give a kajillion dollars for you two to get back together.\ |
| 254 | '''Homer:''' Make it 2 kajillion.\ |
| 255 | '''Marge:''' Homer!\ |
| 256 | '''Homer:''' We'll lose the first kajillion to taxes. |
| 257 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' |
| 258 | ** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E5TheInconveniencing The Inconveniencing]]", after Mabel starts hallucinating from eating too much [[GRatedDrug Smile Dip]]: |
| 259 | --->'''Dipper:''' Mabel, how many of these did you eat?!\ |
| 260 | '''Mabel:''' Bleven-teen... |
| 261 | ** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E9TheTimeTravelersPig The Time Traveler's Pig]]", Blendin Blandin is a time agent from the year 207̃0[[ExtyYearsFromPublication 12]] (pronounced "twenty-snyeventy-twelve"). |
| 262 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': In the episode "Normal Boy", Jimmy becomes dimwitted, and during school, he answers a math problem ("What's the square root of 144?") with "eleventy-six". |
| 263 | * A couple of examples from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': in the episode "Arthur Babysits," he flashes back to D.W. jumping on the couch as Arthur attempts to read to her. She chants "Forty-eleven, forty-twelve, forty-thirteen..." while doing so.[[note]]If she follows forty-nineteen with sixty, then she is simply using a vigesimal (base 20) counting system, which several modern languages still use. French and Danish once used entirely vigesimal counting systems and still contain remnants of them[[/note]] Additionally, in the episode "I'd Rather Read It Myself," the Tibble Twins tried to prove to D.W. they could tell time. They pointed to the grandfather clock in Arthur's living room and said the time was "eleventy-twelve," when the clock actually read ten past four. |
| 264 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' does this quite often, mainly because each member of Dethklok is, at the very least, a multi-billionaire and each album the Band releases dramatically affects the Stock Market and Global Economy. |
| 265 | -->'''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! |
| 266 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E3FiveMoreShortGraybles 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".]] |
| 267 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS4E14AssistedSuicide Assisted Suicide]]", 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.) |
| 268 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': In the episode "Terminal Stimpy", 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. |
| 269 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'': Cleo asks if Hector, Wordsworth and Mungo can count. Mungo rattles off "eleventeen". |
| 270 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Liquid Assets" has Fenton say that Scrooge had 607 tillion 386 zillion 947 trillion 522 billion dollars and 36 cents, keeping in tune with him in the comics. |
| 271 | * Given the age range of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' cast, this is bound to show up. For example, when the babies hear about Didi planting dill herbs and think there's going to be clones of Dil... |
| 272 | -->'''Tommy:''' I love my brother, but I don't know if I can deal with two, or three, or... eleventy! |
| 273 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In order to re-open the Bounce Lounge in [[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS2E33TheBounceLounge 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. |
| 274 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': In "The Epic Quest of Unfathomable Difficulty!!!", Wander and Sylvia have to reach the top of the Intergalactic Guru's temple by climbing its "million-quinquog-inter-quadra-tentillion steps." |
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| 278 | * In [[MemeticMutation a meme]] [[Memes/Morbius2022 that was spawned by]] the film ''Film/{{Morbius|2022}}'', some people state the movie made so much money, a new number named after Morbius had to be invented called Morbillion. |
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| 282 | * 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. |
| 283 | * 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. 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. |
| 284 | ** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_tree_theorem TREE(3)]], the third number of a function that suddenly explodes ludicrously fast[[note]]TREE(1) is 1 and TREE(2) is 3[[/note]], is one of the numbers it lost its title to. Its value isn't known precisely, although the number itself is known to exist. How big is it? If you were to try to express it using Graham's function, [[SerialEscalation Knuth's up-arrow notation appears within the function itself]].[[note]]More precisely, TREE(3)'s very, very lower bound is larger than graham's (186192nd hyperoperation of 3 by 3)th number.[[/note]] |
| 285 | * In 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. |
| 286 | * 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... |
| 287 | * 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 (octillion) and 10^30 (nonillion). You could, theoretically, string multiple prefixes together, so a megaquetta would be one million quetta. The [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure length of a football field]], expressed in the super tiny unit called the Planck length, would be a little over 5 megaquettaPlanck lengths. |
| 288 | * Numbers in French. |
| 289 | ** The same principle as "twelve" ("douze") is continued up to 16 ("seize"). |
| 290 | ** The direct translations of "seventy", "eighty" and "ninety" ("septante", "octante" and "nonante") are archaic in France and Quebec but do have some rare use in other regions. The more standard terms are "sixty-ten", "four-twenty" and "four-twenty-ten" ("soixante-dix", "quatre-vingts" and "quatre-vingt-dix"). "Quatre-vingts" is comparable to "four score" in English, "score" being equal to 20. |
| 291 | * In English, number names are generally standardized with the larger place value being the prefix and the smaller one being the suffix (i.e. "55" being "fifty" and "five"). Except numbers 11-19, which flip the pattern and have a couple that don't fit at all. A common linguistical error for young children learning to speak English and count at the same time is to over-generalize the pattern; rather than switching from "nineteen" to "twenty," they'll simply continue to count on, ending up with numbers like "ten-teen" and "eleven-teen" for 20 and 21. |
| 292 | * When you get right down to it, since numbers go on forever, all that's necessary is to somehow give those numbers an official name. But until then, numbers like 'zillion' or 'gluglomwomalomadumdummillion' will stay non-existent unless they are given a definition as a specific number. |
| 293 | * 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 were {{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. |
| 294 | * A quadrillion (10^15) is probably the lowest quantity that the layperson would not be able to recognize. It's at least the lowest division ending in "illion" that has no Wikipedia article. |
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