What is the highest number a human can put into words?

Answer 1

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This process can be continued indefinitely, but one has to stop somewhere. The name centillion (n = 100) has appeared in many dictionaries. A centillion is 10*303 (1 followed by 303 zeroes) in the American system and a whopping 10*600 (1 followed by 600 zeroes) in the European system.

Finally, there is the googol, the number 10*100 (1 followed by 100 zeroes). Invented more for fun than for use, the googol lies outside the regular naming systems. The googol equals 10 duotrigintillion in the American system, 10 sexdecilliard in the European system, and 10 triacontatrillion in the proposed Greek-based system.

The googolplex (1 followed by a googol of zeroes) is far larger than any of the numbers discussed here.

Answer 2

Here's a list in use for the United States:

million
billion
trillion
quadrillion
quintillion
sextillion
septillion
octillion
nonillion
decillion
undecillion
duodecillion
tredecillion
quattuordecillion
quindecillion
sexdecillion
septendecillion
octodecillion
novemdecillion
vigintillion
unvigintillion
duovigintillion
trevigintillion
quattuorvigintillion
quinvigintillion
sexvigintillion
septenvigintillion
octovigintillion
novemvigintillion
trigintillion
untrigintillion
duotrigintillion

A centillion is a 1 followed by 303 zeroes

A googol a 1 followed by 100 zeroes, and a googolplex is a 1 followed by a googol of zeroes. But the google is not usually used in science at all. More for fun and general expressions.

Answer 3

Centillion 1 followed by 303 zeroes

Answer 4

Your question should be rephrased to "What is the highest number that has been discovered so far and can be put into words?"

infinite, always means there's another one coming and many more after that.

Answer 5

The highest number is a googolplex.Googolplex is the number 10^{\,\!10^{100}}.

It can also be written as 10googol, or

10^{\scriptscriptstyle10\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000\,000},

or as a 1 followed by a googol (10100) zeroes. Note that 10^{\,\!10^{100}} is the same as 10^{\,\!(10^{100})} because exponentiation works from the top down. The term googol was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner. Googolplex was coined by Kasner to define an especially large number by extension from his nephew's idea. A googolplex is larger than the estimated number of elementary particles in the universe.

A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros. One way of grasping its size is that it is equivalent to multiplying the product of 1 million by 1 million 16 times, then further multiplying that by ten thousand. The term was coined in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination.

A googol is of the same order of magnitude as the factorial of 70 (70! being approximately 1.198 googols, or 10 to the power 100.0784), and its only prime factors are 2 and 5 (100 of each). In binary it would take up 333 bits. Google was originally meant to be called Googol but it

Answer 6

Infinity

Answer 7

Bravo ReginaJ

Answer 8

"Aleph final" is by definition the name of the biggest ever set of infinity, basically it is as much infinity as can get.
The only problem is that it is easy to mathematically make a bigger set which would then be bigger than "Aleph final" which is not possible by definition.

This was a big problem at the beginning of the XXth century, Cantor's Paradox.

Answer 9

A googleplex
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Answer 10

There is none.

You say "googolplex", I can say googolplex to the googolplex power". You can come back with "googolplex to the googolplex power to the googolplex power", etc.

Those are all expressed in words.