Not sure of the exact date or even year but it was in the 1940s.
the web site googol/google
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.
Yes. 1 googol is a one with 1 hundred 0's like this: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Googol was named by a 9-year old and the technical term is ten duotrigintillion.
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...
There are (googol+1) of them.
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!
Googol can be written as googol or 10^100.
it's a number it looks like this: 10^10^100 and googolplex is a number it is higher than the number of hydrogen atoms in the observable universe! scientist use googol for rocket science! EDIT: 10^10^100 is a googolplex, not a googol. A googol is 10^100 whereas a googolplex is 10^googol Its use, however, has no mathematical significance. A googol was pretty much invented for fun by a mere 9-year old.