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Conway and Guy have used zillion to refer to any number name (such as million, billion, trillion, and so on) ending in illion. Many others, internationally, approve this use.

In SymbianOS slang, a hexadecimal number with seven zeroes is a zillion. For example, 0xF0000000 is "F zillion".

Like the words bazillion, jillion, and so on, the term zillion is sometimes used as a fictitious name for an indefinite large number.

Musician Stevie Wonder uses the term "zillion" in the title of his popular song "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away".

In the movie Monkey Business (1952), Dr. Barnaby Fulton (played by Cary Grant), returned to childhood by an elixir of youth, is asked a price for his formula and replies "A zillion dollars! A million trillion!"

In 1985, ABC released the album How to Be a...Zillionaire!

In the TV Series DuckTales, Scrooge McDuck uses the word Zillions to descibe his wealth in the episode Merit Time Adventure.

Zillion (1987) was an anime series and a video game.

Zillions was a children's magazine published by Consumer Reports. *

Zillion is a New Zealand online auction site * which won the "Best New Site" at the 2006 NetGuide Web Awards *.

Zillions of Games is a commercial software product for playing abstract strategy games.

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