A 1 followed by 100 zeros

Usage examples of googol.

Both the googol and the googolplex have no practical use save as illustrations of absurdly large numbers.

Since its decimal expansion has a googol zeros, and there are not nearly a googol of atoms or quarks or anything else in the universe, you are not going to write it down on paper, no matter how much paper you have or how small you write.

I choose George Bailey because he was the only one who came within a googol of light-years of guessing what they were.

Surgery program, and a reservoir of organic soup, and a googol of self-replicating machines a few hundred atoms long.

In their 1949 book Mathematics and the Imagination, Edward Kasner and James Newman introduced the world to the googol - the digit 1 followed by a hundred zeros.

Planck mass per cubic Planck length, which is a googol grammes per cubic metre.

Both the googol and the googolplex have no practical use save as illustrations of absurdly large numbers.

Until recently it was thought to be zero, but it's now thought to be about 1/120plex units, where a unit is one Planck mass per cubic Planck length, which is a googol grammes per cubic metre.

That is, the Twenty Universes known to me, out of thousands or millions or googols of universes.