Template talk:Bowers illions

Is this best named "Bowers illions" with the current content? The names that Bowers coined I think start with "cenuntillion" and go up to "multillion"...not all names used in that range having originated with him,but this was where he made naming choices.("Millillion" goes back to about 1859(credited to Holbrook by Henkle),long before SI prefixes existed,and Bowers chose to upscale from there with descending SI prefixes as of the 1991 expansion,followed by ascending prefixes,followed by his own coinages).

Numbers from "centillion" down are part of implied prior systems,numbers that invoke Bowers but go beyond "multillion" should be credited to the people who came up with them,while alternative systems need to be kept out of discussion of Bowers sets except as comparison in articles. Just who came up with "platillion" (a name for the long scale/Henkle millillion,Epstein system kilillion) or "bentrizillion" may never be known.

The names that Bowers and I defined differently,separately,using the high SI prefixes (I added the ronnillion and quettillion names to the Epstein system as soon as the CGPM approved the new prefixes) would presumably link only to the Bowers definitions from a Bowers template but there should be a disambig hatnote in articles for either kind.

Tiers Bowers never touched should get their own templates. 12.144.5.2 04:36, 19 November 2023 (UTC)