2007-01-21 20:47:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
A googolplex is 10^googol (a googol being a 1 with 100 zeros behind it).
Here is a link to Edward Kasner the inventor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kasner
2007-01-21 20:58:56 · answer #1 · answered by JMBC 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've just been reading about this in Terry Pratchett's 'The Science of Discworld III' and it's been doing me head in! I wish I could get paid for thinking things up which are totally beyond comprehension. It would apparently take longer than the life of the universe to write out a googloplex and one would have to use sub-atomic particles to do it. So why worry about it.The phrase 'get a life' occurs to me, but then, I was never any good at maths.
2007-01-22 06:30:51 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the name of the headquarters of Google.
It is also a large number. 10 to the 10th power to the 100th power
A googlogplex is larger than the number of elementary particles in the known universe
2007-01-22 04:52:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its 10^10^100
2007-01-22 04:54:07 · answer #4 · answered by pigley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋