Googolplex

Subject: Googolplex
From: Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 02:51:31 -0700

>Not to mention googolplex, which is just a *very* large, indefinite
>but not infinite, number

Not indefinite either. According to Kasner and Newman, who ought to know
because Kasner's 9-year-old son (now, I suspect, in his fifties) invented
the term, a googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeroes. That is, it's 10 to
the googol power, or 10^(10^100) -- ten to the ten to the one-hundredth
power. ...RM

Richard Mateosian http://www.c2.org/~srm/ President, Berkeley STC
Freelance Technical Writer srm -at- c2 -dot- org Review Editor, IEEE Micro


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