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googols

googols is the plural of googol.

Meaning of googol

Numeral

googol (plural googols)

  1. The number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).
    • Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as by scientists. The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not...1940, Edward Kasner, James [Roy] Newman, “New Names for Old”, in Mathematics and the Imagination, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, page 23

Questions about googols

What is googols the plural of?
Googols is the plural of googol.

Words near googols in the dictionary

  1. googolplexians
  2. googolplexplex
  3. googolplexplexes
  4. googolplexplexplex
  5. googolplexth
  6. googols
  7. googolth
  8. googoltriplex
  9. Googong
  10. googoo
  11. googoos

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