quadrillion
Americannoun
plural
quadrillions,plural
quadrillionadjective
noun
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US and Canadian word: septillion. (in Britain) the number represented as one followed by 24 zeros (10 24 )
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(in the US and Canada) the number represented as one followed by 15 zeros (10 15 )
determiner
Other Word Forms
- quadrillionth noun
Etymology
Origin of quadrillion
1665–75; quadr- + -illion (as in million )
Example Sentences
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She added she would have preferred to have a £63 quadrillion gift card to spend at the supermarket.
From BBC
The effort relies on a supercomputer in Wyoming that can do nearly 20 quadrillion calculations a second using 328 Nvidia chips.
Google said in October that it handles more than 1.3 quadrillion tokens monthly, which is roughly 43 trillion daily.
From Barron's
Estimates for the value of all this vary wildly, from billions to quadrillions.
From BBC
“There’d be something very strange if the best way to train a model was to just generate, like, a quadrillion tokens of synthetic data and feed that back in,” Altman said.
From Seattle Times
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