Sextillion is equal to 1021 (S) or 1036 (L).
Examples[]
- The Earth weighs about 5.98 sextillion tons.
- The ocean contains about 6 sextillion cups of water.
- The volume of the Earth is about 1.085 sextillion cubic meters.
- The distance between one end of the universe to another is about 87.9 sextillion miles.
- A count to a sextillion takes 200 trillion years.
- A sextillion seconds is about 31 trillion years.
- A sphere of a sextillion gallons of water is about 1900 km wide.
- A tower of a sextillion people would reach 180,000 lightyears high, larger than the diameter of the Milky Way.
- A sextillion atoms in a cube would be 1.34 millimeters wide, about the size of an average flea.
- SI Prefix: zetta- (S)/henda- (L)
- SI Reciprocal Prefix: zepto- (S)/meco- (L)
Aliases[]
- Donald Knuth - Zeptiad, zettund, jovion