googol

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The two students founded Google - named after googol, the term for 1 followed by 100 zeros - a year later in a suburban garage.

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

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  • I know that a googol is usually written as a one followed by 100 zeros. —  JULY, 1953 VOL
  • A googol (of which its author, Dr. Edward Kasner, says that "it is not even approximately a Russian author") is a one followed by a hundred zeroes, in mathematical notation 10100. —  JULY, 1953 VOL
  • Since my calculator is incapable of processing numbers above 1 googol (9.99999E99), this meets my definition of “effective infinity,” and if some fantastic materials-processing machine were to activate and test a million trillion states every second, it would still take almost a googol of years to test them all. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
  • "Google" -- as opposed to "googol," is one prime example. —  E-Commerce Times
  • And then, the huge, enormous, googol-sized bucket of cold water: —  News @U2
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  1. Coined at the age of nine by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner (1878-1955), American mathematician.
 

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