Why do we have the number "googol" (not google)? (1 with 100 zeros...)

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Why do we have the number "googol" (not google)? (1 with 100 zeros...)

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23-07-2005, 17:53

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Re: Why do we have the number "googol" (not google)? (1 with 100 zeros...)

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Originally Posted by Timothy D. Ginn

Write != write a program/script/what not to write it for you.

Nice try though

He means that he wrote the string "Every number from 1 to googol", and not a list of all those numbers.

Besides, all the numbers between one and a googol are more than the estimated number of particles in the universe.

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