Googol (Noun)
Meaning
A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred).
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The googol is an enormously large number that was popularized by mathematician Edward Kasner in the 1940s.
- In mathematics, a googol is a specific large number, while googolplex is an even larger number that is often considered unimaginably large.
- A googol is so large that if you were to count from one to a googol, saying one number per second, it would take you many times longer than the current age of the universe.
- To put the size of a googol into perspective, consider that the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe is only about 10^80, far less than a googol.
- Mathematicians have been fascinated by the googol since its introduction, and it has been the subject of numerous discussions and explorations in number theory.