5.2. COUNTERS 237
Other order counters
While slightly ridiculous, there are counters for 10 to the power minus 21,
which is the truly insignificant number 0.0000000000000000000001, up to
the incredibly huge number 10 to the power 68, or 100,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. While
for normal purposes these are of course ridiculous numbers, they’re quite
useful for science. The list of all available counters, plus their western ab-
breviated counterparts, is:
counter value equivalent term10 to the power 68 and higher literally, ”immeasurably large number”
10 to the power 64
10 to the power 60
10 to the power 56
10 to the power 52
10 to the power 48
10 to the power 44
10 to the power 40
10 to the power 36
10 to the power 32
10 to the power 28
10 to the power 24 YoĴa, Y
10 to the power 20
10 to the power 16
10 to the power 12 Tera, T
10 to the power 8
10 to the power 4
10 to the power 3 Kilo, K, 1000
10 to the power 2 hecto, h, 100
10 to the power 1 deca, da, 10
10 to the power -1 deci, d, 1/10, 0.1
10 to the power -2 centi, c, 1/100, 0.01
10 to the power -3 milli, m, 1/1000, 0.001