googoln.

/ˈɡuːɡɒl/

Etymology: Arbitrary: see quot. 1940 at main sense.

A fanciful name (not in formal use) for ten raised to the hundredth power (10¹⁰⁰).

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > powers of a million

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googol1940

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1940 E. Kasner & J. 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’.

1945 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Jan. 126/2 George Brown..was the only one who came within a googol of light-years of guessing what they were.

1953 Time 6 July 68/2 Parade..spoofed the whole practice with a circulation brochure to prove that it is headed unmistakably toward the ‘googol’.

1966 C. S. Ogilvy & J. T. Anderson Excursions Number Theory ix. 111 The googol..can easily be written out in full in about two lines of print.

Derivatives

ˈgoogolplex n. [compare -plex in multiplex, complex] a name for ten raised to the power of a googol.

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