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Definition of Sextillions
1. sextillion [n] - See also: sextillion
Literary usage of Sextillions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Comprehensive Arithmetic by Middlesex Alfred Bailey (1897)
"Memorize the names of the periods from units to sextillions ; from sextillions
to units. 10. In a, beginning at the right, point to and name ..."
2. American Comprehensive Arithmetic by Middlesex Alfred Bailey (1897)
"Memorize the names of the periods from units to sextillions ; from sextillions
to units. 10. luo, beginning at the right, point to and name each period; ..."
3. The American Equater: Or, Arithmetic Simplified in which Equations are Used by Conley Plotts (1848)
"Seven quadrillions. Eighty quadrillions. Nine h'd.quadrillions. One quintillion.
Twenty quintillions. Three h'd.quintillions. Four sextillions. ..."
4. Introduction to The National Arithmetic: On the Inductive System Combining by Benjamin Greenleaf (1850)
"The preceding table may be extended to any number of figures by supplying the
names of the periods above sextillions, in their order; viz. ..."
5. Medical Heresies: Historically Considered. A Series of Critical Essays on by Gonzalvo C. Smythe (1880)
"If each dilution was placed in a separate vial, on end, in a line, and each
occupied a half inch of space, the line would extend 63 sextillions, ..."
6. A Treatise on Arithmetic: Designed Particularly as a Text for Classes in by Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (1830)
"Seven sextillions, eighty five millions, three hundred and four. Five sextillions,
three hundred and seventy nine quintillions, four hundred and forty seven ..."
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