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From viginti- + (mi)llion.
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vigintillion (plural vigintillions)
- Originally, in accordance with the long scale, the twentieth power of a million, 10120; now (originally US), in accordance with the short scale, more usually 1063.
1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
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