1 followed by 100 zeroes
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1 followed by 100 zeroes
A googol is the large number 1o^100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros. One way of grasping its size is that it is equivalent to multiplying 1 million by 1 million 16 times, then further multiplying that by ten thousand. The term was coined in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination. A googol is approximately equal to the factorial of 70 (70! being approximately 1.198 googols), and its only prime factors are 2 and 5 (100 of each). In binary it would take up 333 bits. [...]
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A googol is the large number 1o^100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros. One way of grasping its size is that it is equivalent to multiplying 1 million by 1 million 16 times, then further multiplying that by ten thousand. The term was coined in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination. A googol is approximately equal to the factorial of 70 (70! being approximately 1.198 googols), and its only prime factors are 2 and 5 (100 of each). In binary it would take up 333 bits. [...]
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