INCONCEIVABLE!
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It turns out that whoever is in charge of naming numbers in Chinese has a good sense of humor. What we call Ten Vigintillion (1064) they call “INCONCEIVABLE”. And there’s more!
Now that I have the ultimate table of Ridiculously Large Chinese Numbers, my next research project: Exceedingly Small Chinese Numbers. I wonder if they have equally ingenious names for one quadrillionth, or a picosecond?