What's the highest number you know?

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And can theoretically count to! Practically everybody knows that a googolplex is a really big number™, but what number do you actually know how to get to?

I can get all the way through the tredecillions (the thirteenth -illion, 1ᴇ42), but then I get confused with the prefixes for 1ᴇ45 and everything goes downhill from there.

What about you guys? :o

EDIT: Apparently there's a short scale and a long scale (which Germany and France uniquely use in English); on the long scale, the -illions are even bigger!
 
I could probably get up to novemsexagintillion in the short scale, which is 1ᴇ210 in that system. I could go to centillion (1ᴇ303) if I could remember what the name was for 1ᴇ213, because I'd expect it to be something like septengintillion following the naming conventions for previous -gintillion numbers, but it's something a little different.

The reason I can go that high is because of a dumb little mobile game called Adventure Capitalist where the cash upgrade things went up to quinsexagintillion, and it's just a matter of applying the standard prefixes to get to novemsexagintillion.
 
To infinity...


...AND BEYOND!
 
That time I was playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater #Somethingor Other and my game crashed cause I was playing as Boba Fett and kept using his jet pack.

Poor N64.
 
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Once, I counted up to 1463 at a factory job before I decided that was more boring than the assembly line.

As for what number I could theoretically count up to, haven't really thought about it. I don't really pay attention to anything past a trillion because there's going to be no time in my life where I encounter numbers that big or larger and have to do work with.
 
Before just now, when I looked it up, I could go to 1015​-1 in English and 1024​-1 in French.

Oh, and I guess 59 in Spanish?
 
Probably 999 Trillion *insert rest of 9's*

I know some of the names for what comes after, but never bothered figuring out the order.
 

Related the Grahams series is always fun to imagine
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didn't read the thread
I can count to dog in binary.

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I could prolly get to the trillions and then not know what the fuck to do from there. o__o
 
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Add one to whatever answer anyone gives. That's mine.
 
Trillion is the highest I have ever really needed to learn. Usually any time I have had a reason to deal with larger numbers it has been scientific notation or a logarithmic system.

I can consistently go from pico to exa on the si prefixes, I always forget zetta. (So trillionth through quintillion)

I am a poor computer nerd, I only have powers of two confidently memorized up to 8192.
 
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