In casual conversation, people often say, "That's a hella lot" .... I guess.... But now many folks are hoping to formalize the term. Kilo, mega, giga, tera, .... , hella. From the Daily Mail (h/t MA),
A campaign to name the number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 'hella' is attracting strong support from scientists.
An online petition started in California - where the word 'hella' is slang for 'many' - is calling for the word to become an internationally recognised prefix, joining the likes of mega, kilo and giga.
The word would apply to figures with 27 zeros after the first digit.
this is reminiscent of the Googolplex story
Posted by: JH | March 12, 2010 at 08:23 AM