Dragon Ball Z Abridged

20 zeros!? Pun or not I don't even know what that amount is called!

edited 20th Apr '15 4:36:54 PM by Spirit

10^20? I don't even know what the name for that number is!

edited 20th Apr '15 4:37:11 PM by Zelenal

Google tells me the number is 100 quintillion.

edited 20th Apr '15 4:38:24 PM by Spirit

I recall seeing scans of Buu saga power levels and, yeah, they got stupidly absurdly huge.

20 zeroes isn't that far off, considering.

It's just the VA giving a guess.

Actual power levels are probably 11 digit

Wasn't Frieza's 100% power level on Namek around 120 million? If so, in Frieza's four months of training, he managed to square that and multiply by about 10000.

God forbid Frieza trains for five months, otherwise the heroes would be screwed.

No, if he trained for five months then he'd actually be weaker. That's why the heroes never discovered the glory of training for exactly four months.

The real question is, what would happen if Broly got to train for 4 months?

He'd totally kick everyone's ass right up until the last 5 minutes of the movie.

So no changes then?

Really that's sorta how all the movies go isn't it?

Hmm, Broly never actually did any sort of real training.....

Speaking of Broly. He was born with a ridiculously high power level right? And then Vegeta Sr. was all like this and had Broly and his dad executed. Except that they weren't actually executed, and then Freiza blew up the planet. Right? How did they survive the planet blowing up? I know Broly was super strong and wouldn't be killed by an attack from a weakling like Freiza, but that doesn't explain how he was able to survive in the vacuum of space without any air, or any transportation. Also, his dad should have totally been blown up along with the planet. Did he survive by virtue of the fact that he was standing next to Broly?

Broly made an energy bubble and they bubbled away.

Seriously, the first movie shows this.

Broly survived thanks to his hatred towards Kakarot for making him cry when he was a baby!

Just for reference when it comes to large numbers such as quintillion, it goes:

Million
Billion
Trillion
Quadrillion
Quintillion
Sextillion
Septillion
Octillion
Nonillion
Decillion

With a new prefix every three zeroes, or with every new comma.

At that point the theme (Million aside) should be pretty obvious if you're familiar with Latin, and can be extrapolated further. One centillion would have 303 zeroes trailing after it.

edited 21st Apr '15 1:17:16 AM by Anomalocaris20

I think million comes from m(ono)-illion.

The 100 quintillion Battle Power is a joke, and a pun.

Sauce

Those would just be fan made. The closest thing we've gotten for a Boo arc character's battle power is Battle of Gods suggesting base Goku is still weaker than 120,000,000. Which goes against the idea that things escalated that much.

edited 21st Apr '15 3:31:29 AM by Saiga

And then there's the fun confusing part of languages other than English calling 10^9 a thousand million instead of a billion, and under that system 10^12 is a billion instead of a trillion (and 10^15 is a thousand billion instead of a trillion, and so on).

So 10^whatever is the way to go.

Scientific notation, bitches! It transcends all languages!

That.

As a Super Saiyan 3, Goku's battle power cannot exceed 48 billion as of the end of the series proper, which gives us a rough framework of estimation for the relative powers of the other characters around him during the Buu arc.

It's not a lot to work with, but it still gives us a basic idea of the magnitude we're dealing with.

edited 21st Apr '15 7:34:17 AM by TobiasDrake

Couldn't you calculate somewhat through the spirit bomb? If say, there were seven billion people on earth who gave up their power, and the average power level on earth is five, then that would increase the bomb by a power of 35 billion, and then you could kind of extrapolate other people's levels by seeing how big of an increase other people's contributions were. Although I guess that method probably wouldn't work since they don't give up all of their power to make it.

As noted, we don't know how much power they actually give to the Genki-Dama. The battle power variance also makes it difficult to estimate, as does the fact that we don't know for certain Dragon Ball's Earth even has 7 billion people on it; it's a united World Nation populated by dinosaurs and sentient animals and with few enough major cities that they can actually be given such unhelpful names as "North City" or "East City"; we should make no assumptions as to how close to our world it is.

i'd say that a 1.25x difference in power (based on SSJ Goku vs 100% Freeza) is probably a decent start to estimate defeats or victories.of course,villains after Freeza had kind of unlimited Stamina,soooo,disregard this?