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Combined assets of $14.2tn are more than the GDP of every country except China and the US

Archived version: https://archive.ph/o2gaB

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wait, what comes after trillion?

[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Guillotine (in all seriousness though I believe it's quadrillion).

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not to worry there is still plenty of room for growth. I'm looking forward to our first Sextillionaire

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It goes even further than that. After vigintillion, you have steps of 10^30 that go trigintillion, quadragintillion, quinquagintillion, sexagintillion, septuagintillion, octogentillion, nonagentillion and centillion, with the 10^3 prefix in the front. If you really need to ramp up further, centillion can be prefixed by any of the other major prefixes, so 10^30 centillion is a decicentillion, and so on.

It's a whole system that I had a hyperfixation on as a kid so I remember it quite well.