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googolplex

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡuːɡəlplɛks/Part of speech nounSorted eggllooopxStarts with GEnds with X0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol)

Word origin

From googol + -plex, coined by American mathematician Milton Sirotta in 1920 who was then the young nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner. First published and defined in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

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  • Consider that we can start with one googolplex and count: two googolplexes, three googolplexes and so on up to a googolplex googolplexes and beyond—and still not have reached infinity.
  • To a mathematician, a googolplex is the figure 1 followed by a googol of zeroes (a googol being the figure 1 followed by a mere 100 zeroes). To a real-estate man, it's one infinitesimal parcel of a plot of land.

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