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What are all the prefixes in order?
I'm a bit confused because i don't know all the prefixes. I understand the first ones like M, B, T, Qa and Qi, but i get a bit confused when i get to the prefixes like NDc and UDc. Could anyone send a list of all the prefixes in order?
Originally posted by Pirate:
I suggest switching to scientific notation in the settings. This game's "lettered" notation gets unwieldy very quickly. With scientific, it is shown as #.# e ###, where e can be interpreted as "times 10 to the power of". Which is the proper way of saying: the number following the e is how many zeros exist after the first whole number.

So 1e6 is 1 million (1 followed by 6 zeros). 7.93e9 is 7,930,000,000 (7.93 billion). etc.

When you get to numbers like a google (1 followed by one hundred zeros), seeing 1e100 is easy to parse, while seeing whatever this lettered system does is just a mess. And this game goes far, FAR above that.
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Pirate Apr 2, 2023 @ 7:28am 
I suggest switching to scientific notation in the settings. This game's "lettered" notation gets unwieldy very quickly. With scientific, it is shown as #.# e ###, where e can be interpreted as "times 10 to the power of". Which is the proper way of saying: the number following the e is how many zeros exist after the first whole number.

So 1e6 is 1 million (1 followed by 6 zeros). 7.93e9 is 7,930,000,000 (7.93 billion). etc.

When you get to numbers like a google (1 followed by one hundred zeros), seeing 1e100 is easy to parse, while seeing whatever this lettered system does is just a mess. And this game goes far, FAR above that.
Last edited by Pirate; Apr 2, 2023 @ 7:51am
Pirate Apr 2, 2023 @ 7:42am 
I say "whatever this system is" because it's not the standard metric system. Instead I believe it's some version of an old latin system. I say this because in the modern world, 1 billion is a Giga- and is thus represented by a G not a B, and as you go up you get to Petta (P) and Zetta (Z), which I don't recall seeing when I tried using the lettered system this game uses (why is it the default?! gah!).

In the latin versions, they also used whole words, not letters, so i can only guess.
Here are my guesses:

1e6 = million = M
1e9 = billion = B
1e12 = trillion = T
1e15 = quadrillion = Qa
1e18 = quintillion = Qi
1e21 = sextillion = Sx
1e24 = septillion = Sp
1e27 = octillion = Oc
1e30 = nonillion = N
1e33 = devillion = Dc
1e36 = undevillion = Udc
1e39 = duodevillion - Ddc
1e42 = tredicillion = Tdc
1e45 = quattuordecillion = Qdc
1e48 = quindevillion = Qdc
1e51 = sexdecillion = Sxdc
1e54 = septendevillion = Spdc
1e57 = octodecillion = Ocdc
1e60 = novemdecillion = Nvdc
1e63 = Vigintillion = Vi

The only (old and outdated) guide has a list when talking about card upgrades that jumps up by a million fold each time (so adds 6 zeros to the end each time) and it seems to corroborate my theory of using an abbreviated version of the old latin system. it (copy-paste from that guide) looks like this:

1e33 / 1Dc
1e39 / 1DDc
1e45 / 1Qd
1e51 / 1SxDc
1e57 / 1OcDc
1e63 / 1Vi
1e69 / 1DVi
1e75 / 1QVi
1e81 / 1SVi
1e87 / 1OVI
1e93 / 1Tg
1e99 / 1DTg
1e105 / 1QaTg
1e111 / 1SxTg
1e117 / 1Otg
1e123 / 1Qd
1e129 / 1DQd
1e135 / 1QaQd
1e141 / 1SxQd
1e147 / 1OQd
1e153 / 1Qq
1e159 / 1DQq
1e165 / 1QaQq
1e171 / 1SxQq

... Trying to parse the letters... that's just... painful imo. The scientific notation (left column) is much easier to understand imo.
Last edited by Pirate; Apr 2, 2023 @ 7:53am
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