A googol is the large number 10100 or ten to the power of one hundred. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes:...
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Googolplex (redirect from Googol plex)
googol of zeroes. Its prime factorization is 2googol ×5googol. In 1920, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term googol,...
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Names of large numbers (section The googol family)
include any higher names in the googol family (googolduplex, etc.). The Oxford English Dictionary comments that googol and googolplex are "not in formal...
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The name "I/O" is taken from the number googol, with the "I" representing the first digit "1" in a googol and the "O" representing the second digit...
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Edward Kasner (section Googol and googolplex)
geometry was his main field of study. In addition to introducing the term "googol", he is known also for the Kasner metric and the Kasner polygon. Kasner's...
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specializing in internet-related services and products. Google, Googal, or Googol may also refer to: Google Search, a web search engine Google (verb), using...
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Power of 10 (section Googol and googolplex)
10−[(2 + 1) × 3] = 10−9 quintillionth = 10−[(5 + 1) × 3] = 10−18 The number googol is 10100. The term was coined by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American...
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nanomole and initially said he did not know what a googol is. However, he eventually decided to lock in "googol" as his final answer which won him the £1 million...
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71. 70 is the value n {\displaystyle n} whose factorial is closest to a googol, where 70 ! ≈ 1.1978571 … × 10 100 {\displaystyle 70!\approx 1.1978571\ldots...
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calculator with two digits for powers of ten without overflow. Mathematics: One googol, 1×10100, 1 followed by one hundred zeros, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000...
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