vingtillionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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vingtillion (plural vingtillions)

1. Misconstruction of vigintillion
   • 1940 February, Thrilling Wonder Stories‎, v. 15, n. 02], page 83:

     The dinosaur Trachodon had 2,000 teeth, and when one dropped out, another grew in its place. . . . The vingtillion is the largest number usually given a name? It consists of a one followed by sixty-three zeros. . . .

   • 1944-5, Loretto Rainbow, page 215:

     When I am told that between 3 and 4 there is a numerical value that cannot be expressed in whole numbers or decimals, that map-makers need never use more than four colors, that a vingtillion represents the number of grains of sand that Archimedes long ago calculated as sufficient to fill what he believed to be the universe, I just make polite noises[.]

   • 2013 May 28, Gavin Callaghan, H. P. Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction, McFarland, →ISBN, page 142:

     Lovecraft [...speaks of] "another plane of phase of entity from which it [the planet earth] had once fallen, vingtillions of aeons ago."