googol
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- noun
- /ˈɡuːɡəl/
- Specialized
- "It's googol."
Examples
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A straightforward calculation shows that the universe would expand by a factor of a googol (10^100) in less than one-thirtieth of a microsecond.
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As one might expect, we got yet another "googolplexic" number: 10 to the power of 10^150 (a googolplex is 10 to the power of a googol).
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Because if there was even a one in googol chance of anyone figuring out it was me, then I wouldn't tell the truth.
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So people say "googol."
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There is nothing in the Elections Code stopping a candidate from selecting googol to distinguish themselves from an identically named candidate.
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Most people shouldn't touch this with a googol-foot pole (yes, that is the real way to spell it, the number 10 with 100 zeros after it).
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Had I been in the second Baker's shoes and couldn't get the number 1, I would have selected the number googol (yes, that's how it's spelled): **40;3328;TOOLONG ...
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A googol is defined as ten raised to the power of one hundred, which is represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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In mathematics, a googol is a large number equivalent to 10^100, illustrating the vastness of numerical representations.
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When discussing large numbers, many people refer to a googol, which is significantly larger than a billion or a trillion.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word googol was created in 1938 by a nine-year-old boy who wanted a name for the number 'one followed by 100 zeros'. A helpful way to remember it is that the company Google took its name from this idea of something huge, so googol means an extremely large number.