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The term was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta (1911-1981), nephew of American

mathematician Edward Kasner, when he was nine years old. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

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After what digit does googol come into play?

A googol is the large number 10100, or 1 followed by 100 zeroes.Note: The spelling is googol, not google.


Where did the name 'Google' come from?

An accidental misspelling of a number googol, 1 googol = 1 X 10^100


Where did Google name come from?

An accidental misspelling of a number googol, 1 googol = 1 X 10^100


What is the number after Googol?

One googol and one would be next after one googol.


What number is after 1 googol?

The integer successor to 1 googol is "1 googol 1".


Is there a number called googol?

Yes there is. The number googol can be described as a one followed by 100 zeros. 1 googol = 10100


Why is googol a number?

Because someone was playing with numbers, and wanted a big one. Having come up with 10100 he asked his kid what she thought might be a name for a large number. She said googol.


Is there a number larger than a googol?

There is a higher number. It is Googol plex. It has a googol of zeros. There is also a 10Googolplex it has a googol plex of zeros. or search this up what is a alpha omega


How many zero are in the number googol?

a googol has 100 zeros.


Is there such thing as a googol?

Yes - a googol is a number equal to 1 followed by 100 zeroes. A similar number, the googolplex, is the number 1 followed by 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (a googol) zeroes.


How big is the number googol in math?

The mathematical number googol is a very large number and it has the digit 1 followed by total of 100 zeroes. In total the number googol has 101 digits.


What do you call a number with 1 hundred digits?

A number between a tenth of a googol and a googol or a duotrigintillion.