Crossword clues for googol
googol
- One followed by 100 zeros
- 10 to the 100th power
- 101-digit number
- Number with 100 zeroes
- 1 followed by 100 zeros
- 1 followed by 100 zeroes
- Ridiculously large number
- Number with 101 digits
- Number whose name inspired the name of a tech company
- Number beyond comprehension
- Humongous number
- 10 to the hundredth power
- 10 to the 100th
- 10^^100
- Very large number
- Giant number
- A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)
- Huge number
- Number having 100 zeros
- A 1 followed by 100 zeros
- A huge amount of sticky stuff: precious commodity, mostly
- Huge number try trademark climbs
- Huge figure of Russian writer seizing doughnut
- Ten to the power of 100
- Big number
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940, in "Mathematics and the Imagination," a layman's book on mathematics written by U.S. mathematicians Edward Kasner (1878-1955) and James R. Newman, the word supposedly coined a year or two before by Kasner's 9- (or 8-) year-old nephew (unnamed in the book's account of the event), when asked for a name for an enormous number. Perhaps influenced by comic strip character Barney Google. Googolplex coined at the same time, in the same way.
Wiktionary
num. (context cardinal English) The number 10100.
WordNet
n. a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)
Wikipedia
A googol is the large number 10. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred 0s:
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The term was coined in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta (1911–1981), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination. Other names for googol include ten duotrigintillion on the short scale, ten thousand sexdecillion on the long scale, or ten sexdecilliard on the Peletier long scale.
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.