Quintillion Definition & Meaning

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Europe recently unveiled a rival, Jupiter, housed in western Germany, also able to perform at least one quintillion calculations per second, which is equivalent to about a million smartphones.

From Barron's

Interplanetary space contains just a few dozen particles in each cubic centimeter — in comparison, the air we breathe has tens of quintillions of molecules per cubic centimeter.

From Salon

They expect future calculations to be performed on ORNL's Frontier, the world's most powerful supercomputer and the first exascale system, which is able to perform more than a quintillion calculations each second.

From Science Daily

There are more than 10 quintillion insects on Earth, 200 million for every human.

From Science Magazine

In the Bitcoin network, miners make about 350 quintillion -- that is, 350 followed by 18 zeros -- guesses every second of the day, an activity that consumes a tremendous amount of computing power.

From Science Daily