2006-07-22 07:03:57 · 34 answers · asked by g m 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
A search engine
Or a number
2006-07-22 07:06:06 · answer #1 · answered by The Hit Man 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The VB guy is correct apart from the spelling.
Googol is 10^100 - 10 raised to the power 100.
Googolplex is 10^(10^100) - 10 raised to the power Googol.
Seeing as how you have put this question in the Mathematics section I presume that you have misspelled it and aren't referring to the search engine.
Remember when that guy on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" was caught cheating, and a friend of his was coughing in the audience to give away the answers. Well the £1 Million pound question was "What is the name for the number 1 with a hundred zeros after it". Of course the answer was Googol.
A number 1 with a hundred zeros after it is the same as 10^100.
2006-07-22 07:44:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the figure 1 followed by all those 0's is a googleplex. If you check out Carl Sagans' book Cosmos - it might still be around - the history of googleplex is in there - apparently named by a mathematicians young son when the mathematician could not think what to call the new number he'd found. As for what a google is?? A search engine...
2006-07-22 07:09:59 · answer #3 · answered by dylan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Google is the number 1 followed by 1,000,000 zeros
2006-07-22 07:06:22 · answer #4 · answered by andrewstimj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SInce you asked it in math I think you meant
"What is a googol" which is a 1 followed by a hundred zeros.
But the answer to YOUR question is.. a misspelling of googol which caused the search engine Google by be named the way it is. So most people would answer that its a search engine. (also incorrect since google is now a mega-site conglomerate of many services but that would just be getting picky)
2006-07-22 07:08:46 · answer #5 · answered by Gandalf Parker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
google is a search engine
a googol is 10^100 or a 1 with a hundred zeroes after it. A googol-plex is ten to the googol power or 10^googol The term googol was thought up by a mathematician named Kasner's nephew. He asked his nephew what would be a really word to describe a really big number. His nephew replied with googol.
2006-07-22 10:11:40 · answer #6 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 to the power of 100
2006-07-23 23:10:56 · answer #7 · answered by motown 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a 1 with 1,000,000 zeros. Also, it is a search engine, and they used the mathematical term "google" to personify the opinion that they turn up the most results.
2006-07-22 08:18:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most important Search Engine for the last 5 years.
2006-07-22 07:19:43 · answer #9 · answered by Sara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like the Question has been answered. 10 to the power of 100.
There is also a ga ga OR GAGA and googolplex (remember back to the future)
BOTH GOOGOL GOOGLE AND GAGA OR GA GA are sounds a baby makes.
the person who named this got if from the sounds his baby made.
2006-07-23 13:20:41 · answer #10 · answered by dj_madsteve 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a number between 1 and 9 with 60 zeros
2006-07-22 08:53:48 · answer #11 · answered by zakariya93 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋