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How high can you count in any language?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24892points) 15 hours ago

I can only count to 999 quadrillion in English. I know of Googleplex, but not the previous numbers.

I can count to 10 in French.

What about you?

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janbb's avatar

50 in French
10 in Hebrew
A lot in English

Brian1946's avatar

8 in Espanol
3 in French
999 decillion, 999 novillion, 999 octillion, 999 septillion, 999 sextillion, 999 quintillion, 999 quadrillion, 999 trillion, 999 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, 999 in Englitch.

I have a sub-google gap of 67 zeros in my English counting.

Realistically though, if I live to be 107 and start counting now, I could probably count to about a billion.

Even more realistically: because counting that high would require no sleep and no food, I’d probably reach about 32 million before I died when I was almost 79. ;-p

seawulf575's avatar

I used to be able to count quite high in French, when I was taking lessons (8th grade). Now I only remember only up to 29. I can count as high as time allows in English. I’m learning Chinese and starting to understand their way of numbers. Sort of like an abacus in language form. 1–10 are separate numbers, but then you get into 1 10 and whatever number for the teens, 2 10s for 20 and so on. New number for various points along the way. Once I get all the nouns down it should be easy.

LifeQuestioner's avatar

Pretty high in Spanish because once you know the earlier numbers and the words for 600, 700, etc, you’re really just building on what you know. Thousands are easy too, but I don’t know beyond that.

Forever_Free's avatar

I never try to count when I am high.

flutherother's avatar

30 something in French
10 in Chinese
8 in German
A trillion in English

ragingloli's avatar

According to this calculation, it would take me 218 years to count to one billions, so I would not even make it to half a billion, even if I counted 24 hours a day without sleeping, eating, pissing or shitting, and lived for another 100 years.

JLeslie's avatar

English – Trillions.

Spanish – I think the trillions also. Maybe there is some number that is irregular in there that I’m not aware of, but for sure up to a million, and I think I could just keep going.

French – 10

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