noun
- the number represented by 1 followed by 51 zeros in the US system, or by 1 followed by 96 zeros in the British system
Usage: mathematics
Examples
- A sexdecillion is an astronomically large number rarely encountered outside theoretical mathematics.
- The probability of that event occurring is less than one in a sexdecillion.
- Scientists estimated the number of atoms in the observable universe to be far less than a sexdecillion.
- The calculator couldn’t display numbers as large as a sexdecillion.
- In the American numbering system, a sexdecillion has 51 zeros after the 1.