What’s A Google ?
When you hear the word Google the first image that comes to mind has to be the famous internet search engine but does the word actually mean anything ? Well the answer is a firm yes because it comes from the term “Googol” which represents a number (written as a 1 followed by 100 zeros) so large that it’s actually larger than the total number of atoms in the known universe.
As you might imagine the number is rarely used except maybe in theoretical and computational calculations, however the big question is whether a number bigger than a Googol exists ? Well funnily enough there is and it’s called a googolplex which would be a number 1 followed by, wait for it not one thousand zeros, not even one million zeros but a googol zeroes.
Getting confused ? Well you should be because this number is so large that it’s almost impossible to imagine and also impossible to write because doing so would require more space than the known universe provides. Absolutely mind boggling don’t you think!
Lastly for those of you that are interested in where this term actually came from, well it was popularized in the 1940’s by the american mathematician Edward Kasner who created it as a useful number when comparing unimaginably large numbers with infinity. Oh and the actual term “googol” was coined by his then 9 year old nephew Milton Sirotta, not bad for a 9 year old!
very nice but r these the only facts on the website
this is mind blowing i can`t get me head around it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where did you get the idea that there is only one Googol atoms in the universe?! In a single gram of Hydrogen there is about 6.08 x 10^23 atoms. IN A SINGLE GRAM. In one litre of water there would be far more than a Googol of atoms. Then let’s not get into the fact that a single middle sized star (such as our sun) has around 2 x 10^30 kg of Hydrogen. And the largest star in the known universe, VY Canis Majoris, has over 25 solar masses (ie at least 25 times as much Hydrogen) and would reach out past saturn if it was put in place of our Sun. I think that there might be a bit more than a Googol of atoms in the known universe
so is the googolplex theoretically a number one followed by googol times itself?
WOW its mind Boggling.
Great information.
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good info
couldny you write it on a computer
Now i m going to calculate exact opposite of it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cooll….i never knew this….good info
a googol?
Is that how many soldiers went to iraq?
I reckon using copy+paste, a googolplex of any character you choose could be achievable fairly easy using notepad.