Googol

Word GOOGOL
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈɡuː.ɡɒl/

Definitions and meanings of "Googol"

What do we mean by googol?

The number 10 raised to the power 100 (10100), written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. noun

The number 10100, written as 1 followed by 100 zeros. noun

A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred) noun

The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Googol

The word "googol" in example sentences

June 30th, 2008 at 10: 32 am googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros. gladyz Says: ❋ Unknown (2006)

Famously, Page and Brin rented a garage as their startup home and, on September 4, 1998, launched Google Inc, a deliberate mis-spelling of the word googol, the mathematical term for a one followed by a hundred zeros. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a nod to their geeky roots as children of computer science and math professors, Page and Brin had derived the name from the mathematical term "googol" - a 1 followed by 100 zeros. ❋ Unknown (2008)

First off, they specifically took the name of the company from the word googol, which is a very large number 1 with one hundred zeros after it, after first thinking of the word googolplex, which is 1 followed by a googol of zeros, as a symbol of the immense amount of data their search engine would search through. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The name itself springs from a number—a googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. ❋ Matthew E. May (2007)

Even more impressive is a googol, which is greater than the number of particles in the known universe: ❋ Andrew Newberg (2006)

Google probably wanted to use 10e100, since that character string means 10 to the 100 power - in other words, a googol. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A googol is a one followed by a hundred zeros -- or, in technical terms, "a freakin 'ginormous number." ❋ Unknown (2010)

This number, called a googol (just a made-up name), is the largest number with a name.

The company name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Google's name came from a spelling error of the word googol and bing. com is a sound effect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It happens because Google (named after the word "googol," signifying the very big number of one followed by a hundred goose eggs) provides a smarter way to search. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What you missed in the Kasner/Sirotta story was the fact that Sirotta, at the time, was an infant., and that Kasner interpreted his gurgling baby-talk as the word "googol". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now the question is - how likely is it that Sirotta came up with the world "googol" on his own, and was not influenced by the massively successful comic strip of the same name, which was EVERYwhere comics, cartoons, toys, you name it? ❋ Unknown (2008)

What was the story behind the naming of the number "googol"? ❋ Unknown (2008)

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