Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links
Googol
- Googol
- 1 googol = 10 raised to the power 100 = 10100 (i.e. 1 followed
by 100 noughts = 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,
000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000).
The number was named in 1983 by Milton Sirotta after his uncle (the mathematician
Edward Kasner) asked him to think up a name for the number. See also
googolplex.
The search engine Google is rumoured to be named as a play on the word Googol.
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