Kiddo wants to know, since numbers are infinite, doesn’t that mean that there must be a real number “bajillion”?

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Answer 1

While its true that there are infinite numbers, its also true that there is no limit to the number of letters that can be in a word.

If we had a number system that could go on naming forever, the names could just get longer and longer (and you would never see “bajillion”).

But just for fun, lets imagine that we decided that we don’t like really long words and want to put a cap on it. Say, no more than 100 letters.

In that case, you could confidently tell them that there would in fact, be a number called “bajillion” 🙂