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Article #698Re: Largest digit with a name?
From: Herb Brown
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <3100bfc9.14096446@news.jhu.edu>, Stephen Hwang <timelord@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:42:22 GMT, michaelg@julian.uwo.ca (Michael >Glenn) wrote: > >>What is the largest digit with a name? >> >>eg: million, billion, quadrillion, etc... >> >>Can you also include the numerical value >> >>eg: 1000 or 100 000 or 1 X 10^4 etc... >>--------------------------------- >>Michael Glenn >>The University of Western Ontario >>michaelg@julian.uwo.ca >> > >I believe the largest digit with a name is 10^10^100. It is called a >googolplex. ^^^^^^^^^ Which do you mean? 10^(10^10) or (10^10)^10? Exponentiation is not associative. Herb -- Herbert I Brown Mathematics Dept, The Univ at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 Director, (518) 442-4640 Computer Assisted Instruction in Mathematics hibrown@math.albany.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,95a097a79829929b X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: f7972,95a097a79829929b X-Google-Attributes: gidf7972,public From: hibrown@csc.albany.edu (Herb Brown) Subject: Re: Largest digit with a name? Date: 1996/01/20 Message-ID: <4dqpsf$bp6@rebecca.albany.edu> X-Deja-AN: 135869684 references: <4dc4c6$15k@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <3100bfc9.14096446@news.jhu.edu> organization: The University at Albany newsgroups: can.schoolnet.math.sr,sci.math