Quattuorquadragintillion mean there are fourty-four sets of three zeroes beyond the initial thousand. You can stop and unpick them given a few moments and a grounding in Latinate prefixes if you want to - quattuorquadraginta telling you forty-four is somehow involved, but they no longer trip off the tongue or easily fall into place in the brain. Their descriptors become these alien words which you stop being able to parse quickly. All of these are numbers I encounter on a daily basis, thanks to my habit of leaving AdVenture Capitalist running in the background, but a few days ago they suddenly prompted me to actually think about the numbers and their names rather than letting them drift past, sextillions expanding into septillions, into octillions, nonillions and beyond - far beyond anything we encounter in real life.Īt some point the numbers on the screen in AdVenture Capitalist stop making sense in the traditional numerical way.
