Board Questions

Awhile back I stumbled upon a website. It was similar in idea to the Board, but obviously lacking in panache. They didn't even answer every question. They posted all the questions that went unanswered, so I thought I would have a go at some of them. Some of the questions were really funny, and I couldn't help imagining what it would be like if these questions were asked to the Board. [I will be taking a few liberties with the format of the questions. Any resemblance to the 100 Hour Board is not only intentional, but crucial to my experiment.]

Q Dear Ridiculously Addicted Boardie [AKA Wally III] ,

What comes after 999 trillion?

-One who wants to keep counting

A Dear are you joking me?!,

I tried counting to 1,000 once and I got bored at like...actually I am too embarrassed to say. Now to your question...I guess nine-hundred and ninty-nine trillion and one [999,000,000,000,001]--but I am guessing you were really asking "What comes after nine-hundred and ninty-nine trillion nine-hundred and ninty-nine billion nine-hundred and ninty-nine million nine-hundred and ninty-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninty-nine [999,999,999,999,999]?"

In that case it is one quadrillion, which is followed by quintillion, which is followed by sextillion, which is followed by septillion, which is followed by octillion, which is followed by nonillion, which is followed by decillion, which is followed by undecillion, which is followed by duodecillion, which is followed by tredecillion, which is followed by quattuordecillion, which is followed by quindecillion, which is followed by sexdecillion, which is followed by septendecillion, which is followed by octodecillion, which is followed by novemdecillion, which is followed by vigintillion. This is about where it ends for no particular reason, but I am sure the pattern would continue with unvigintillion, duovigintillion, trevigintillion, quattuorvigintillion, quinvingintillion...etc. Larger than that there is a googol 10^100, centillion 10^303, and googolplex 10^(10^100). All of which are extremely large.

I am sure that will keep you busy counting for another 10^361! years. All of this information is readily available on Wikipedia for fast easy access. Happy Counting.

All these numbers remind me of the Count on Sesame Street. he was the coolest. I remember the episode where he was asking a little girl how much money she needed to ride the bus. It went something like this.

Count: [Dracula accent] How much will you need.
Girl: [Very High Pitched Girl Voice] ohhh... Twenty something.
[Dramatic Cord]
Count: Twenty something?! You can't have 'twenty something' it can be [he counts in the dramatic way that only the Count can, as the numbers appear on the screen] 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, or 29.

Yeah Sesame Street was amazing.

-Wally III [5]