Where does the name Trillian come from?

[Amelia G]

Who knows where the name Trillian comes from?

[adorn_shadow]

Or Google. That is the most amount of zeros you can acheive before hitting infinity.
A Trillian is followed by 12 zeros

[Amelia G]

Okay, adorn_shadow has it in the field of mathematics and physics. Who has the answer in arts and literature?

[TheWalkingGlitch]

Trillian was, of course, in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was a nickname, short for Tricia McMillan if memory severs correctly. I should read that book again.

[chaosfeary]

That's what I was going to say Yeah, it was Tricia McMillian and she was an astrophysicist, at different points she got married to a rotary club chairman, had Arthur Dent's child, got eaten by the bugblatter beast of traal and got blown up along with the whole of Earth..

[keiko]

Tricia McMillian was a reporter, not an astrophysicist. other than that you were right on.
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[chaosfeary]

I swear she was somewhere

*after looking*
Yeah, http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhiker...trillian.shtml
I haven't read the book in a while but the TV+radio series has been on a couple times recently here. They must've changed her profession

[adorn_shadow]

Ok I am soo fuckin lost.