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

[Timothy D. Ginn]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

...Please make ten copies of this letter and mail it to the next ten integers higher than you....

You forgot the part about:

"...and please forward this within 6.424563 hours of receiving this letter or you will forever be cursed with a poor love life, Ebola, the black plague, wrinkles, will be forever chased down by El Niño and have to live with smelly feet for life."

[Ryan M.]

Nice, Ken and Tim. That was great. ROTFLMFO (rolling on the floor laughing my face off...)

[KenWittlief]

there are better ways to threaten integers:

Not replying to this letter would be an irrational act - you dont want the other integers talking negatively about you

you could end up getting drawn

and quartered!

[Dan Zollman]

I don't remember who "invented" googol (but a quick google search can answer that!) but I know that he let his nephew name the number.

[roboticsguy1988]

And just when i thought i would have my first day of not learnign something new LOL well all i ahve to say is thats a big number.

[eapoe21]

Hey, just to help you out, it was Edward Kasner. Carl Sagan then used the term when he son asked him how many stars were in the universe.

[Barry Bonzack]

The Internet search engine Google was named after this number. The original founders were going for 'Googol', but ended up with 'Google' due to a spelling mistake. Lawrence E. Page: "Lucas Pereira: 'You idiots, you spelled "Googol" wrong!' But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not. Now most people spell 'Googol' 'Google', so it worked out OK in the end."

In the closing ceremonies, I recal something about people not being able to spell when they used the google search engine. How ironic.

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

there are better ways to threaten integers:

Not replying to this letter would be an irrational act

I Shall divide you by zero...

[Alex Pelan]

I think, eventually, the 1 to 1000 thread will reach a googol. Alas, that's not one person.

[Ian Curtis]

Then we simply divide the 100 dollars between everyone whose ever posted in it.

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

It does not seem we need to even use the number googol, petition to eliminate it.now (Lol). It is impossible to practically use the number since there aren't even close to a googol atoms in the universe, it does not make since to even have the number. By the way, I will pay $100 to any (1) person who can write every integer from 1 to a googol

ok thats impossible...well not really impossible but if i started now...i'd have to keep writing until i was like 60 lol i dont kno. i remember my freshman year in math my teacher told us we have the option of writing 1-1,000,000 or just take the end of the semester final. the whole class started writing 1-million and the whole block and everyone just gave up because itd take us like 3 straight months to do and the final was like that week. therefore...i raise the bet lol ill give someone like 1,000,000 dollars if they write 1 to a googol lol

[eapoe21]

To help you with your calculations lol it takes about 200 years, counting 24 hours a day to count to a trillion