My mom (who is deaf) and I were talking about the signs for very large numbers... but we got stumped after trillion. Million, Billion, and Trillion are just the sign of the initial letter jumping up the left hand; however, Quadrillion and Quintillion begin with the same letter, as do Sextillion and Septillion. Is there even a way to express these numbers with signs? Certainly when you get into numbers such as quattuorvigintillion and quattuortrigintillion, it becomes difficult to spell out properly.
Quadrillion (1 followed by 15 zeroes)
Quintillion (1 followed by 18 zeroes)
Sextillion (1 followed by 21 zeroes)
Septillion (1 followed by 24 zeroes)
Octillion (1 followed by 27 zeroes)
Nonillion (1 followed by 30 zeroes)
Decillion (1 followed by 33 zeroes)
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Vigintillion (1 followed by 63 zeroes)
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Googol (1 followed by 100 zeroes) (or 10 duotrigintillion)
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Centillion (1 followed by 303 zeroes)
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Googolplex (1 followed by 1 Googol zeroes)
Please do not respond with "When would you ever need to sign these?" as the same could be said for the existence of these words in spoken language.
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- asl sign for billion and up
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I am Deaf… So most Hearing and Deaf people don’t say it all the time but really I remember few time they sign three different now let me explain it to you I bet you know sign for MILLION , BILLION and TRILLION is easy to use in sign language.
Okay if you see the first letter that show the same letters? What you should do is spell like (Quad) then sign (rillion) like you did (million).
then you spell like (Quin) then sign (tillion) like you did (million).
Then use ( Sex, Sep, Oct, Non and Dec) then sign a (million).
but most of time I have seen they spell and you know most Deaf people can spell faster like you read it.
I hope this help.