The term was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta (1929--1980), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, when he was nine years old.
A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros in decimal representation.
The founders of Google had intended to register it as Googol when they set up the company but inadvertently spelled it wrong and did not realize before it was too late.
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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
a googol has 100 zeros.
the number googol has exactly 100 zeros in it
A googol is 10^100. A googolplex is 10^googol
The Googol number is the largest number that has a name. It is 1 followed by a hundred 0's, it looks 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. * * * * * A googol is not the largest number with a name. A googolplex and Graham's number are two examples of larger numbers.