Wednesday, August 04, 2004

(mathematics) googol - The number represented in base-ten by a one with a hundred zeroes after it.According to Webster's Dictionary, the name was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician, Edward Kasner

(mathematics) googolplex - The number represented in base-ten by a one with a googol zeroes after it.

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