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googolAn 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. googol [′gü‚gȯl] (mathematics) A name for 10 to the power 100.
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Pappas delivers a new way to enjoy and learn some sublimely abstract notions, such as tessellations, fractals, googols, imaginary numbers, and much more. Milton Sirota made up the word googol to stand for the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros--a very large number. Introduce the word "googol" and explain that one googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. |
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