jun tan tec: Googol

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Friday, November 19, 2004

Googol

In the 1940's, an American mathematician named Edward Kasner asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to give a name to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros. "Googol," suggested Milton. That unimaginably huge number is now officially a googol. And the unimaginably large number of 10 raised to the power googol - which means 1 followed by ten zeros squared a hundred times - is a googolplex.

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