Fantastic Billion
A Fantastilliarde (also Fantastilliarde ) is a fictional number word for a very large but indefinite number or sum of money. The name became popular - like Fantastillion - through Erika Fuchs ' translations of the works of Carl Barks into the German language.
In the comics about the Duck family , a fantastic trillion describes a partial sum of Scrooge McDuck's fortune and a thousand fantastic trillions (according to the real million × 1000 = billion ) result in a fantastic billion .
In the story "The Fantastic Millions Jubilee" ( LTB 53 - Title: Dagobert, the billionaire acrobat ), 30 Fantastillions are written out as 30 followed by 80 zeros. By his own admission, Scrooge McDuck's total fortune is 50 years after he earned his first million in 1927 in Gold Spring, Colorado. In the new edition of the story under the title The Millions in Doses (title of the LTB in new edition: The Bombastium Expedition ) there is only a 30 followed by 69 zeros in this version, which would correspond to 30 undecillion .
In another story (Funny paperback 123 - title: Uncle Dagobert live high in history Around the world with 80 thalers ) Dagobert Duck and Klaas Klever bet for a sum of money. Klaas Klever increases the bet of one thaler proposed by Dagobert to one billion. Dagobert then asks: “Seriously, Mr. colleague, what does a billion times a billion?” And immediately gives the answer: This is a fantastic billion . According to German nomenclature, this would mean a trillion thalers (1 with 18 zeros). In his money storage Dagobert later tears his hair and quarrels that a fantastic billion is almost a thousandth of his total wealth. Uncle Dagobert would then have a little more than a trillion thalers.
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- ↑ for example at http://de.pons.eu/deutsche-rechtschreibung/Phantastilliarde
- ↑ See Funny Paperback No. 53 (first edition from 1978) page 13 for the number and page 20 quote from Dagobert: “Fifty years old and still as fresh as the young morning!” . For Gold Spring and 1927 see page 21 of the volume, text box in front of panel 3.