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Indefinite and fictitious numbers are words, phrases and quantities used to describe an indefinite size, used for comic effect, for exaggeration, as placeholder names, or when precision is unnecessary or undesirable. Other descriptions of this concept include: "non-numerical vague quantifier" [1] and "indefinite hyperbolic numerals". [2]
When reading numbers in a sequence, such as a telephone or serial number, British people will usually use the terms double followed by the repeated number. Hence 007 is double oh seven . Exceptions are the emergency telephone number 999 , which is always nine nine nine and the apocalyptic " Number of the Beast ", which is always six six six .
In North America, the area served by the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) system of area codes, fictitious telephone numbers are usually of the form (XXX) 555-xxxx. The use of 555 numbers in fiction, however, led a desire to assign some of them in the real world, and some of them are no longer suitable for use in fiction.
I have created Indefinite and fictitious numbers (note the missing word "large"), which points to Umpteen, and which I would also like to point to this page, perhaps renamed as Zillion. (I know that zillion renaming is an old issue) This came up because of a merge request of Umpteen to this page, except Umpteen isn't necessarily "large."
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The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.