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Slow-moving neutrinos pass through matter more easily than fast-moving ones, so only a few, if any, of those 300 decillion neutrinos would interact with your hand at all.

Meanwhile, the Oxford Dictionary advises that the big number designations which follow quadrillion — quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion and decillion — are not likely to appear in any financial context too soon.

This figure is so very large that we shall content ourselves with illustrating a decillion decillion, and for this purpose we avail ourselves of a method employed by Archimedes to illustrate his system of enumeration.

Three million tons of matter go into that colossal furnace every second of time, and out of that comes two and a half decillion ergs of energy.

And in our island here, I have five hundred thousand million separate power plants, each generating at the rate of decillions of ergs a second, backing this ship.