Quadrillionth (Noun)
Meaning
One part in a quadrillion equal parts.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- A person who wins a huge lottery is extremely lucky since the odds are at best one in a quadrillionth of actually hitting the jackpot.
- Given the statistical improbability, finding life on the distant planet is only a quadrillionth of a chance and then some.
- On average, the likelihood of being born with heterochromia is less than one quadrillionth.
- Considering the time it takes, the potential for occurrence in any finite observation is only one quadrillionth of witnessing such unlikely events.
- If there were a quadrillion marbles arranged in a line, the distance the universe expanded during inflation would be equivalent to picking one marble from that line only once in a quadrillionth of the entire lifetime of the universe.