= a Googol, which is where Google the corporation got its name.
Googling googol:
A googol can be written in conventional notation as follows:
1 googol = 10100
= 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
A googol is greater than the number of elementary particles in the observable universe.
Avogadro's number, 6.0221415x1023, can loosely be thought of as the number of carbon atoms in twelve grams of elemental carbon, and is perhaps the most widely known large number from chemistry and physics. Avogadro's number is much less than a googol.
Black holes are presumed to evaporate because they faintly give off Hawking radiation; if so, a supermassive black hole would take about a googol years to evaporate.
Seventy factorial, or 70!, is just over a googol, 1.19785717 ? 10100. This means that there are over a googol ways to arrange seventy items (or people) in a sequence (such as a line to a concert).
The Shannon number, 10120, a rough lower bound on the number of possible chess games, is more than a googol.
A googol is considerably less than the number described in the ancient Archimedes' story of The Sand Reckoner, namely But it should be noted that the system invented by Archimedes is reminiscent of a positional numeral system with base 108, so that Archimedes' number could be written , that is, 1 googol in base 108.
In the January 23, 1963 Peanuts strip, Lucy asks Schroeder what the chances are of them getting married, and Schroeder responds "Oh, I'd say about 'googol' to one."
"A googol is precisely as far from infinity as is the number one." ? Carl Sagan, Cosmos
A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol of zeroes, or ten raised to the power of a googol.
In the documentary Cosmos, physicist and broadcast personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in numerals (i.e., "1,000,000,000...") would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe occupies.
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hmmmm......can't remember
ToTwo. I can live with that. :lol:
- infinity and
- beyond!
SWGB
Isn't that three?
1. infinity
2. and
3. beyond
😀
1. infinity
2. and
3. beyond
😀
Beach Fanatic
It's "gozillion" according to F Gump. :lol:
Well, I am from Pennsylvania. My drawl hasn't appeared yet. :rolling:
Beach Fanatic
beats on hood
Isn't that three?
1. infinity
2. and
3. beyond
😀
You are right -- there's an infinite number of degrees of infinity, starting with aleph zero and aleph one.
Yet, according to the IEEE standards,
0 11111111 00000000000000000000000 = Infinity
1 11111111 00000000000000000000000 = -Infinity
So infinity on a digital computer is represented by a finite number of binary digits. How can that be?;-)
And then if you take the LARGEST integer that can be implemented (usually 2 to the 31st minus 1) and then you add 1, you get the SMALLEST integer (negative 2 to the 31st) due to 32-bit two's complement representation of integers. How can that be? 😀
Then there's the ubiquitous "Not a Number":
0 11111111 00000100000000000000000 = NaN
1 11111111 00100010001001010101010 = NaN
;-);-)
SoWal Insider
You are right -- there's an infinite number of degrees of infinity, starting with aleph zero and aleph one.
Yet, according to the IEEE standards,
0 11111111 00000000000000000000000 = Infinity
1 11111111 00000000000000000000000 = -Infinity
But then it all comes down to aleph 0 and aright 0 = ombs
SoWal Guide
But then it all comes down to aleph 0 and aright 0 = ombs
exactly. mangy always has a grip on any situation.
hmmmm......can't remember
But then it all comes down to aleph 0 and aright 0 = ombs
exactly. mangy always has a grip on any situation.
:floor:
Is this new math?
SWGB
You guys are just speaking greek to me.
SWGB
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nerds :wave:
Beach Fanatic
goo goo gah gah! that's alot of number stuff! i just learned that gmail is short for googlemail! 😀:lol:love you!!
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