centimillionaire (was: Meanwhile, back at the ranch)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Joseph McCollum <prez234 at JUNO.COM> writes:
>>>>>
I had e-mailed Barry about the centimillionaires and the SI convention
having centi- as 0.01x and hecto- as 100x (but of course we have
centipede and the like).  We also have billionaire, trillionaire,
quadrillionaire, etc., all Latin prefixes; presumably -illionaire means
(x 10^(3*prefix+3)) in America and used to/still does (??) mean (x
10^(6*prefix)) in the UK.  We also have multi-, (not poly-) millionaire.

     [...]

What we want is a word to describe someone with 10^8 dollars, two-thirds
of the way from one million to one billion.   "One and two-thirds."
"Bes" is Latin for "two-thirds," but words with that root don't appear to
have made it into English.  How about besquillionaire?
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Isn't this right where we came in? <cross-thread-allusion> So what's wrong
with "hectomillionaire"? </cross-thread-allusion>

-- Mark, already