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Article #751Re: Largest digit with a name?
From: Jon Haugsand
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <4dde5g$34r@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> "C.M. Angus" <C.M.Angus@ncl.ac.uk> writes:
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> What about a googolplex (maybe the spelling is different)
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> 1 X 10^100 I if I remember correctly.
Not exactly. Here is what webster says:
goo.gol (n)
('g{u:}-.g{o.}l)
Etymology: coined by a child
n, the figure 1 followed by 100 zeroes equal to 10[sup 100]
goo.gol.plex (n)
(-.pleks)
Etymology: i[googol] + i[-plex] (as in i[duplex])
n, the figure 1 followed by googol of zeroes equal to
{ten-to-ten-to-hundred}
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Jon Haugsand
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