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- noun Plural form of
quadrillion .
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Examples
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There is even some talk about "quadrillions" which in the U.S.
Canada Free Press 2009
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That might be an oversimplification, yet still today American tax burden is somewhat lower than British one, and over all these years you've probably avoided paying trillions, if not quadrillions.
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It works on the principle that the behaviour of a mass of people is predictable if the quantity of this mass is very large (equal to the population of the galaxy, which has a population of quadrillions of humans, inhabiting millions of star systems).
Roland Emmerich Plans to Shoot Asimov’s FOUNDATION Trilogy Using 3D Motion Capture – Collider.com 2010
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Jerome was immediately regarded as a lower life form but since the Leptons had traveled many quadrillions of miles to get here, the correlation with Lepton cattle wasn't certain.
A Simple Misunderstanding Harris Tobias 2011
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And there's enough resources in the solar system to provide a high quality of life for quadrillions of people.
Any country that doesn't explore is going to ultimately recede - NASA Watch 2009
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There's enough asteroids in the solar system to create enough land area to accommodate hundreds of quadrillions of humans.
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You can't tell what an individual molecule is going to do, but if you deal with trillions and quadrillions and quintillions, you can tell very accurately what they're going to do on average.
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In each and every neuron, millions of tubulins coherently vibrate in the megahertz frequency range, providing potentially quadrillions (10 to the 15th power) of operations per second per neuron.
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Neurons commonly fire 5 to 50 times a second, so while you've been reading this paragraph, literally quadrillions of bits of information have circulated inside your head.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Neuropsychology: Shift Your Brain and Thus Your Mind 2010
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Neurons commonly fire 5 to 50 times a second, so while you've been reading this paragraph, literally quadrillions of bits of information have circulated inside your head.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Neuropsychology: Shift Your Brain and Thus Your Mind Ph.D. Rick Hanson 2010
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