| Interesting Math History |
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What is a 'Googolplex' ? |
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Even larger than the googol is googolplex. |
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In 1938, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta coined the term googol. |
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It is defined as 1 followed by a googol of zeros. It is claimed that there would
not even be room between the earth and the moon to write all the zeros in a googolplex.
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1 googolplex
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= 10googol
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= 10(10100)
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The search engine Google (a deliberate misspelling of googol)
refers to its headquarters as the Googleplex, likely an abbreviation of Google Complex. |
