Largest number
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- Who
- Unknown
- When
- 01 January 0001
The largest lexicographically accepted named number in the system of successive powers of ten is the centillion, first recorded in 1852. It is the hundredth power of a million, or 1 followed by 600 noughts (although only in the UK and Germany).