Can you write the number one quadrillion?

I was listening to Terry Gross on Fresh Air. She was speaking to a woman about her book on insects. It was mentioned that the total number of insects is in the quadrillions. Terry Gross said she was surprised to learn that there actually was such a number as quadrillion, a 1 followed by 15 0’s. She had thought it was a word like gazillion.

NPR people tend not to be very math savvy, but I thought that this was generally well known. Multiplying by 1,000 (adding three 0’s), you from one thousand to a million, billion, trillion and quadrillion. Making use of the Latin prefixes, you could continue with quintillion, hexillion, septillion and octillion, though my computer does not recognize these words.