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sextillion
[sek′stil·yən](mathematics)
The number 1021.
In British and German usage, the number 1036.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Sextillion
the number represented by one followed by 21 zeros, that is, the number 1021. In some countries the number 1036 is called a sextillion.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.