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Googol : (noun)
1: a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros
(ten raised to the power of a hundred)
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Googol :
The number represented in base-ten by a one with
a hundred zeroes after it.
According to Webster's Dictionary, the name was coined in 1938
by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of American
mathematician, Edward Kasner.
See also googolplex.
(2001-03-29)
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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