Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The number 10 raised to the power googol, written out as the numeral 1 followed by 10100 zeros.
Wiktionary
- n. cardinal The number , ten to the power of a googol
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol)
Etymologies
- googol + -plex (as in duplex). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Employees dubbed it the Googleplex, a pun on the mathematical term googolplex, meaning an unthinkably large number.”
“If you don't know what 'googolplex' is, allow me to explain it to you.”
“Co-founder Larry Page apparently misspelled the first half of "googolplex" - shorthand for a really big number-and, voila!”
“I think googolplex is good in Scrabble.”
“I was once charged a googolplex for a beer.”
“Sometimes the word “googolplex” was used generically to refer to an insanely large number.”
“These fluctuations could be happening every quadrillion years, or once every googolplex number of years.”
“Most of them would be different in size but some, similar to ours, would be far, far, far away, more than a googolplex meters away (or 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 100!).”
The Huffington Post: Deepak Chopra: Hawking's Grand Book, But Where Is the Design? (Part 2)
“Here's what's amazing about the Mac as it turns 25, a number that in computer years is just about a googolplex: It can look forward.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘googolplex’.
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Really, Really Large Numbers
octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, docdecillion, tredecillion, quattuordecillion, quindecillion, sexdecillion, septendecillion, octodecillion, novemdecillion and 74 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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samuraizack's Words
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., bombastic, existentialistic, velocipede, aglet, anatomical snuffbox, wonk, tang, funambulist, quakebuttock, flews and 390 more...
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JJMARLETTE's Words
phantasmagorical, antidisestablishm..., gargantuan, apocryphal, maim, disembowel, viscous, apothecary, seminal, exponential, googol, googolplex and 90 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Because I like Them: G --- H
gossypiboma, gymnophoria, ginglyform, goobermensch, gomeril, gump, grinagog, gorbelly, gound, hamesucken, hypobulic, humicubate and 93 more...
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Words otherwise of note
palinode, discubation, apophasis, agathokakological, lachrymose, superfluous, gerund, serendipity, avuncular, onomatopoeia, chagrin, copacetic and 100 more...
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ziz's Words
penumbra, sialogogue, marshmallow, visigoth, cat, googolplex, vanillin, polaroid, heckle, umbrella, parasol, palanquin and 1 more...
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How Much?
dearth, paucity, capacious, scads, oodles, googol, rife, googolplex, caboodle, myriad, multitudinous, whole hog and 4 more...
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Mathematical
Including Logic as well.
e, asymptote, phi, integral, derivative, fx(dx), tesseract, googol, googolplex, set, dodecahedron, zero and 48 more...
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Some Words That I Love
hopemonger, googolplex, agog, pneumonia, haiku, icky, blurgh, chuck, swatch, zoinks, terrorist, foresight and 2 more...
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plutoman's list
fossick, rat's razoo, barmy, bohemian, talisman, tagada tsoin-tsoin, ponsonby, badugi, ombudsman, obfuscate, zombie, forgettory and 56 more...
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Yay! Words
Words that make me go Yay!
spleen, vile amphibian, look! a gerbil!, palooza, luposlipaphobia, socks, multidemsonal per..., googolplex, googol, multidimensional ..., spiderpig, canada and 1 more...
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Number words
A list of some words for numbers (mostly cardinal numbers, but a few other important ones that have short descriptions).
aleph-one, aleph-null, infinity, googolplex, googol, trillion, billion, myllion, million, myriad, great gross, thousand and 43 more...
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My Words are Numbered
Names of numbers.
zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and 61 more...
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too numerous to mention
The words for the numbers. Any number from minus infinity to infinity. And back. This list ensures that Wordie will never, ever run out of unique words to add.
minus infinity, infinity, three hundred and..., five hundred and ..., pi, one googol and one, one hundred and t..., seven hundred and..., one, nineteen, minus one, a hundred and nine and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for googolplex.
seanahan Actually, mathematically speaking, you can view this number as tiny. Now Skewes number, that's freaking huge. Feb 26, 2008
thesuperiorbeing Why thank you, gangerh. And great pun! Feb 24, 2008
gangerh Great googolplexplanation, TSB. Feb 24, 2008
thesuperiorbeing You see, Googol is a number with one hundred zero's (you know, a million has 6 zero's a hundred has 2... well this one has 100). But Googolplex is a number with GOOGOL zero's. Also, if you tried to write googolplex down (the number, not the word), - even if each digit was the size of an ATOM - then it wouldn't fit inside the UNIVERSE. Impressive, eh? Feb 23, 2008
oroboros 10googol Oct 7, 2007