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

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23-07-2005, 18:03

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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 Greg Marra

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.

Ah, that's even better... wow, it's all together too obvious that I've been staring at (and writing) code all day.

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