12/28/2011

Googolplex Can Never Be Written In Full

Googolplex is the largest number in the English language with a word naming
Wikipedia defines googolplex as a number 10googol, i.e. 10^{(10^{100})}.

This number is equal to 10 to the power of a googol, or 10 to the power of 10100. This number would be written as 1 followed by 10100 zeroes but there are far fewer particles in the universe than there are zeroes in a googolplex, the number could never be written out in full. The names "googol" and "googolplex" were both suggested in the 1930s by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of mathematician Dr. Edward Kasner.



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