octillion
noun
oc·til·lion
äk-ˈtil-yən 
US
: a number equal to 1 followed by 27 zeros see Table of Numbers
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The investigation found that the DNA was at least 5.37 octillion times more likely to be Kohberger's than an unrelated member of the public, the document states.
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Julianne McShane, NBC News, 21 June 2023
An octillion is a number equal to a 1 followed by 27 zeros.
—Tina Burnside, CNN, 21 June 2023
Humans are composed of about seven octillion atoms, and all those atoms would have to cram into a space the size of one atom.
—Peter Jakubowicz, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
Mind you, this star probably has about the mass of the Sun: over an octillion tons!
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2012
The average human adult is comprised of approximately 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
The odds of the suspect not being Blankenship, according to this match, is 1 in 3 octillion.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 11 Feb. 2020
To put that in perspective, an octillion is a one with 27 zeros after it.
—Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 27 June 2018
The researchers used this tiny deflection to calculate that the mass of Stein 2051B is about 68 percent the mass of our sun — or 1.4 octillion tons (that's 14 followed by 26 zeros).
—Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
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Julianne McShane, NBC News, 21 June 2023
An octillion is a number equal to a 1 followed by 27 zeros.
—Tina Burnside, CNN, 21 June 2023
Humans are composed of about seven octillion atoms, and all those atoms would have to cram into a space the size of one atom.
—Peter Jakubowicz, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
Mind you, this star probably has about the mass of the Sun: over an octillion tons!
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2012
The average human adult is comprised of approximately 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
The odds of the suspect not being Blankenship, according to this match, is 1 in 3 octillion.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 11 Feb. 2020
To put that in perspective, an octillion is a one with 27 zeros after it.
—Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 27 June 2018
The researchers used this tiny deflection to calculate that the mass of Stein 2051B is about 68 percent the mass of our sun — or 1.4 octillion tons (that's 14 followed by 26 zeros).
—Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
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