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quadrillion
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quadrillion
One thousand times one trillion, which is 1, followed by 15 zeros, or 10 to the 15th power. See space/time.
quadrillion
1. (in Britain) the number represented as one followed by 24 zeros (1024)
2. (in the US and Canada) the number represented as one followed by 15 zeros (1015)

quadrillion [kwə′drilĀ·yən]
(mathematics)
The number 1015.
In British and German usage, the number 1024.


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The laser emits 10 billion pulses per second, with each pulse lasting about 40 femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second, producing extra-wide spacing between individual comb teeth.
The laser of the IntraLase system can work at a very high frequency in the order of quadrillionth hertz.
In water, each bond lasts only one 100 quadrillionth of a second (Curtis, 1983), yet so many are being formed and broken at any given instant that they cause the water molecules in a drop of water to cling together with considerable strength and yet to resist clinging together further, even when pressure is applied to them.
 
 
 
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