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If your question is about naming (large) numbers, you may find the following link helpful: www.numericana.com/answer/culture.htm#zillion. The same page includes info about other naming schemes for things like polygons or simple organic chemicals. Another page on the same site will tell you all you need to know about the official multiplicative prefixes to use with physical units. Hope this helps.
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PJ, the second answers you've given for each number I believe are only applicable to omganic (carbon-based) compounds, like methyl propane. For 1, what about solo- and mono-? 2: di 3: tri 4: quadr 5: pent 6: hex/sex 7: hept/sept 8: oct 9: non/enne 10: dec 11: undec 12: d(u)odec 13: tredec/triskaidec 14: quattuordec 20: vigint 100: cent (also googol if you mean 10^100) 1000: mill 1000000: mega n-plex means 10^n, which is why we say googolplex instead of centillionplex  (plex part from DrGerard's reference)
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