Milton sirotta coined the term googol!
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No, but a googol (after which the search engine Google was named as a pun) does - a googol is 10100 which is a one followed by 100 zeros.
A googol is a 1 with a hundred zeroes behind it. We can write a googol using exponents by saying a googol is 10^100. The biggest named number that we know is googolplex, ten to the googol power, or (10)^(10^100). That's written as a one followed by googol zeroes. So it's basically 999 googol
Not sure of the exact date or even year but it was in the 1940s.
A googol is 10^100. So a googol times a googol is 10^200.
To write a googolplex down, you would have to make a one, followed by ten thousand trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, zeroes. There are no named numbers past googol plex, but you could write 'googol plex and one, googol plex and two,' and so on.
2 googol
googol and one, googol and two, googol and three...
in my agenda at school, there is a little fact that the number centrillion, has 500 zeros. but, there is probaby a higher number out there. a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros, but higher named number is a googolplex which is one followed by googol number of zeros - that's a lot of zeros!
There are (googol+1) of them.
Googol can be written as googol or 10^100.