Is there a mathematical term for three orders of magnitude?

Question

I've been playing this github game for a while called Swarm Simulator. I like it a lot and there are a bunch of other simulators going around either in-browser like Swarm or iOS apps, etc.

These games use terminology centered on what I think of as comma groupings of numbers, the game creator (and probably you all) calls them standard decimals.

Essentially, numbers are shortened to 300M or 50Sx... or 13QaQq (quattuorquinquagintillion or 10^165 in short scale). You can actually view the numbers in several different formats including scientific-E, Engineering, or a hybrid (combination of standard and scientific) format if you wish, but this view is my personal preference.

The problem comes when I want to discuss the differences between these numbers.

I know that I can use 3 multiples of "orders of magnitude"...

quadrillion is 6 "orders of magnitude" greater than billion

But is there a term that inherently means "three orders of magnitude"?

So that I could, instead, say:

quadrillion is 2 ______ greater than billion

I have done a little poking around... There's a similar ELU question but I don't think I would want to use the accepted answer's "thousandfold" in this situation...

We use these terms so much in computers (MB, kB, GB, TB etc...) I feel there must be a term that fits for this use of 1000^X as an order base instead of 10^X.

Answer 1

I think the prefix kilo may be what you're looking for.

a quadrillion is 1k times greater than a trillion.

Or if you want to talk about 6 orders of magnitude, you can use mega, even though I don't think this is standard:

a quadrillion is 1M times greater than a billion.

Answer 2

Since an order of magnitude is sometimes called a decade (or decad) from the Greek name for "ten", I suggest chiliad (or chiliade), from the Greek word for "thousand".