The number , 
the googol, is 1 followed by one hundred zeros.
the googol, is 1 followed by one hundred zeros.
The name ‘googol’ was created by the 9-year-old nephew of American mathematician Dr Edward Kasner.
The number
, that is 1 followed by a googol zeros, is called the googolplex.
, that is 1 followed by a googol zeros, is called the googolplex.
The googol is a very big number but it is rarely used for practical purposes.
Even the number of particles in the observable universe, estimated at being between 
and 
, is less than a googol!
and , is less than a googol!
The Internet search engine Google was named after the googol, to reflect the huge size of the world wide web.
It was invented in 1996 by two Stanford University students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Google is a powerful search engine because it can find information from at least two billion web pages in less than one second.
How many googols are there in a googolplex?
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