googol
The number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundredThe number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).
» A googol is ten to the power of one hundred.
Гугол - это десять в степени сто.
Гугол - это десять в сотой степени.
Meaning
1 sensesThe number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).
Googol
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Examples
1 sentencesA googol is ten to the power of one hundred.
ruГугол - это десять в степени сто.
Translations
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Origin
Coined by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward KaCoined by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).
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