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单词 googol
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googol


goo·gol

G0195800 (go͞o′gôl′, -gəl)n. The number 10 raised to the power 100 (10100), written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
[Coined at the age of nine by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner (1878-1955), American mathematician.]

googol

(ˈɡuːɡɒl; -ɡəl) n (Mathematics) the number represented as one followed by 100 zeros (10100)[C20: coined by E. Kasner (1878–1955), American mathematician]

goo•gol

(ˈgu gəl)

n. a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros, expressed as 10100. [1935–40; introduced by U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner (1878–1955), whose nine-year-old nephew allegedly invented it]

goo·gol

(go͞o′gôl′, go͞o′gəl) The number 10 raised to the 100th power, written as 10100 or as 1 followed by 100 zeros.

googol

- Coined when mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nephew to create a word for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.See also related terms for zero.
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Noun1.googol - a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)cardinal number, cardinal - the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
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googol


googol

[′gü‚gȯl] (mathematics) A name for 10 to the power 100.

googol

(mathematics)The number represented in base-ten by a one witha hundred zeroes after it.

According to Webster's Dictionary, the name was coined in 1938by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of Americanmathematician, Edward Kasner.

See also googolplex.

googol

An extremely large number. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, a young nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-1955), who said a googol was 1 followed by 100 zeros (10100). Since a googol is so large that it encompasses everything in the universe and then some, it just means a "gargantuan amount." An even larger amount is a googolplex. See Googleplex and Google.
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googol


Related to googol: googolplex, Googolplexian
  • noun

Words related to googol

noun a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)

Related Words

  • cardinal number
  • cardinal
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