googolplex

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

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  • On that scale, now fortunately extinct, zero was the freezing point of water, but the boiling point was 80 degrees A few months ago, I ran across the term googolplex which was described as 10 10^10 . —  JULY, 1953 VOL
  • City of Lights, City of Angels "will, in the course of seven days, transform the Directors Guild of America Theater on Sunset into a giant Parisian googolplex wherein one can travel from the art house to the grindhouse without ever leaving the building," writes the Scott Foundas. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Dongfeng, China's second-largest automaker (founded at the behest of Mao hisowndamnself back in '68), had a googolplex of heavy truckage on display. —  Jalopnik
  • A googolplex on the other hand is a 1 followed by one googol zeroes. —  Google Blogoscoped
  • Wikipedia says "physicist and broadcast personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in numerals ... would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe occupies." —  Google Blogoscoped
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