How to Use septillion in a Sentence
septillion
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Willow was able to reduce errors exponentially by using more qubits and perform a standard benchmark computation in under 5 minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, the report said.
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Pia Singh,
CNBC,
19 Jan. 2026
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Extrapolating from the National Weather Service estimates, the likelihood of being struck six times is roughly one in 13 septillion—that’s a 13 followed by 24 zeros.
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Jacob Stern,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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By performing a computation in under five minutes that would likely take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years to complete, just last year, the powerful AI chip hinted at the possibility of parallel universes being real.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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Quantum computers calculate in fractions of a second what would have taken classical supercomputers septillions of years, enabling us to create personalized pharmaceuticals and materials with extraordinary properties.
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David Awschalom,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Similarly, in 2024, Google’s 105-qubit Willow chip performed a benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take Frontier, the fastest supercomputer then, 10 septillion (or 1025) years.
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IEEE Spectrum,
21 Oct. 2025
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