| 释义 |
googol|ˈguːgɒl|
[Arbitrary: see quot. 1940.]
A fanciful name (not in formal use) for ten raised to the hundredth power (10100). Also ˈgoogolplex [cf. -plex in multiplex, complex], a name for ten raised to the power of a googol.
1940Kasner & Newman Math. & Imagination i. 23 The name ‘googol’ was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it... At the same time that he suggested ‘googol’ he gave a name for a still larger number: ‘Googolplex’. Ibid. 25 A googol is 10100; a googolplex is 10 to the googol power. 1945Astounding Science Fiction Jan. 126/2 George Brown..was the only one who came within a googol of light-years of guessing what they were. 1953Time 6 July 68/2 Parade..spoofed the whole practice with a circulation brochure to prove that it is headed unmistakably toward the ‘googol’. 1966Ogilvy & Anderson Excurs. Number Theory ix. 111 The googol..can easily be written out in full in about two lines of print. |