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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER XVI
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And I doubt not but we ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further than we usually do, would we find out but some fit denominations to signify them by; whereas, in the way we take now to name them, by millions of millions of millions, &c., it is hard to go beyond eighteen, or at most, four and twenty, decimal progressions, without confusion.
But to show how much distinct names conduce to our well reckoning, or having useful ideas of numbers, let us see all these following figures in one continued line, as the marks of one number: v.

g.
Nonillions.

857324 Octillions.

162486 Septillions.

345896 Sextillions.


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