something with lots of 0's.
2006-11-20 13:59:15 · 19 answers · asked by Dudley Kerr 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
a number with 100 zeroes after 1 may be called GOOGOL
GOOGOPLEX has googol zeroes after 1
the internet explorer GOOGLE is named after it
better don't create an other "ol"
2006-11-23 01:30:35 · answer #1 · answered by HAMBYDEN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A googol is the large number 10e100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros (in decimal representation). One way of grasping its size is to multiply 1,000,000 by itself 16 times, then multiply the result by ten thousand. The ultimate product of this operation is one googol (10100). The term was coined in 1920 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 googol, 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.
The googol is of no particular significance in mathematics, but is useful when comparing with other incredibly large quantities such as the number of subatomic particles in the visible universe or the number of possible chess games. Kasner created it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity, and in this role it is sometimes used in teaching mathematics.
The Internet search engine Google was named after this number. Larry Page, one of the founders, was fascinated with math and 'Googol', even during high school. They ended up with 'Google' due to a spelling mistake on a cheque that investors wrote to the founders.
2006-11-20 21:07:33 · answer #2 · answered by Rahulouce 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 followed by 100 zeroes
2006-11-20 14:01:31 · answer #3 · answered by MateoFalcone 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 followed by 100 zeros.
2006-11-20 14:01:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 followed by 30 zeros
2006-11-20 14:02:05 · answer #5 · answered by chemguy 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1 followed by a hundred zeros...
and a googolplex is a one followed by a googol zeros.
2006-11-20 14:09:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
anyway that should be 1 w/ 100 zeros following it
*pick me 4 best answer :)
2006-11-20 14:07:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember reading about, this one guy got to name what a 1 with 100 zero's after it would be, so he asked his son what he wanted to call it, and his son said "a google".
2006-11-20 14:05:53 · answer #8 · answered by scurvybc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 followed by a thousand zeros
2006-11-20 14:07:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1 with a thousand zeroes.
2006-11-20 14:01:33 · answer #10 · answered by countryboy_ga1014 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋