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Billionfold vs Googolfold - What's the difference?

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Googolfold is a related term of billionfold.



As adjectives the difference between billionfold and googolfold

is that billionfold is a billion times so while googolfold is by a multiple of one googol; by a googol times as much or as many.

As adverbs the difference between billionfold and googolfold

is that billionfold is in a billionfold way; by a billion degrees; on a scale of a billion; as, to multiply something a billionfold, to magnify something a billionfold, something which is a billionfold heavier than something else while googolfold is by a factor of one googol.

billionfold

English

Adjective

(-)
  • A billion times so;
    • a billionfold dilution
    a billionfold increase

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a billionfold way; by a billion degrees; on a scale of a billion; as, to multiply something a billionfold, to magnify something a billionfold, something which is a billionfold heavier than something else.

    • Usage notes

    Both the adjective and the adverb are often used as hyperbole, indicating not literally a billion, but rather some vague inestimable number or amount.

    googolfold

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • By a multiple of one googol; by a googol times as much or as many.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • By a factor of one googol.
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    • , title = Re: Animefantastique Ends Publication , author = chance wolf , date = November 6, 1999 , newsgroup = rec.arts.animation , id = , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.animation/xLlB2GxY9bQ/ZWgJ2ICu2AAJ , accessdate = 2014-12-10 }}
    There are people out there cornerning the market on these things hoping ol' Ty will retire them and somehow disappear from the face of the earth - thereby increasing their value a googolfold .
  • * {{cite newsgroup
    • , title = Re: Interesting non-FTL interstellar settings? , author = Robert Shaw , date = January 19, 2004 , newsgroup = rec.arts.sf.written , id = , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.written/bJQj6ggbbOE/lSNXuY4rg6oJ , accessdate = 2014-12-10 }}
    To get the intensity of the light travelling the loop we must combine the contributions from photons circling it once, twice, thrice, fourfold, ... , a googolfold ...
  • * 2009 , Joel Marks, Ought Implies Kant , page 39:
    • The situation is about to get a googol-
    fold     worse.

    Related terms

    * hundredfold * thousandfold * millionfold * billionfold * trillionfold * quadrillionfold * quintillionfold * sextillionfold * septillionfold * octillionfold * googolplexfold