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quintillion how many zeros

A quintillion has 18 zeros in the commonly used modern (short scale) system, so it is written as:

1,000,000,000,000,000,000

In older long-scale usage (historically in parts of Europe), “quintillion” could mean a 1 followed by 30 zeros , but today in US and UK everyday math, it means 1 followed by 18 zeros.