| 单词 | googol |
| 释义 | googol (once / 319441 pages) n A googol is a famously huge number, literally ten to the one hundredth power. A math teacher might offer extra credit to students who correctly write out the digits of a googol on the blackboard. If you want to write out a googol, write the number one followed by one hundred zeros. Mathematicians sometimes use the idea of a googol to illustrate the difference between an enormous number — one that's too large to imagine — and infinity. The word googol was invented by the young nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner, one of the authors of the 1940 book "Mathematics and the Imagination." WORD FAMILYgoogol: googols USAGE EXAMPLESThe name Google is a play on googol, which is the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros. Seattle Times(Oct 29, 2016) If a googol seems large, consider a googolplex. Carl Sagan, Cosmos(1980) The name Google is a play on googol, which is the number 1 followed by a hundred zeroes. Wall Street Journal(Oct 22, 2015) n a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred) Hyper cardinal, cardinal number the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order |
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