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I would have used "umpteen", sounds large, but it's only in the teens.

• mygo 8y ago
  that’s not true.
• Hupriene 8y ago
  Yeah, but that's teens in a base-ump number system.
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• taneq 8y ago
  I realized a while ago that any hyperbolic ('eleventy billion' style, not counting cases where the actual value counts) number only needs to be about 10x the expected value to sound large. Further orders of magnitude don't seem to add any extra emotional impact after that.