Bluebulb Projects' The Measure of Things presents:
130,000 is about seven-tenths the number of Letters in the Longest English Word.
In other words, it's 0.684863 times the count of Letters in the Longest English Word, and the count of Letters in the Longest English Word is 1.46015 times that amount.
The longest word in the English language (although somewhat disputed) is a chemical name for the substance
connectin, made up of
189,819 letters (
Click here to see the word...). The longest word found in most dictionaries,
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, has just
45 letters.
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