ten duotrigintillion . . .

[Kurt]

= 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.

 

[Miss Kitty]

goo goo gah gah! that's alot of number stuff! i just learned that gmail is short for googlemail!

 

[RiverOtter]

Got it ..... Thanks ;-)

 

[Kurt]

The names googol and googolplex were invented by Edward Kasner's nephew, Milton Sirotta, and introduced in Kasner and Newman's 1940 book, Mathematics and the Imagination,in the following passage:

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as by scientists. The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely 1 with a hundred zeroes after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name. At the same time that he suggested "googol" he gave a name for a still larger number: "Googolplex". A googolplex is much larger than a googol, but is still finite, as the inventor of the name was quick to point out. It was first suggested that a googolplex should be 1, followed by writing zeros until you got tired. This is a description of what would actually happen if one actually tried to write a googolplex, but different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have Carnera a better mathematician than Dr. Einstein, simply because he had more endurance. The googolplex is, then, a specific finite number, with so many zeros after the 1 that the number of zeros is a googol.

 

[John R]

ouch, that hurt.

 

[steele mama]

You are really thmart! Now I can sleep well tonight.
Seriously, it is very interesting.

 

[JUL]

Tmi

 

[Kurt]

 

[kathydwells]

Are you bored? I have a headache...I never was good in math.

 

[steele mama]

Is that a picture of a googol?