Re: Largest digit with a name?

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From: Matt Stupple
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <4dde5g$34r@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, C.M.Angus@ncl.ac.uk says...
>
>In article <4dc4c6$15k@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, michaelg@julian.uwo.ca (Michael 
Glenn) writes:
>|> 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
>|> 
>
>What about a googolplex (maybe the spelling is different)
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>1 X 10^100 I if I remember correctly.
>
>Chris
>
I think you describe a googol (informally 1 followed by 100 zeros) while a 
googolplex is 10 to the power of a googol....

Matt.
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