A googol is a 1 with 100 zeroes after it. Basically, it's 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 or 10100.
Googol History and facts...
In 1938, mathematician Edward Kasner wanted to show his students that a number could be fantastically large - so big that it would boggle your mind- and still not reach anywhere near infinity. His number ended up being a 1 with a 100 zeros after it. Since it needed a name, he asked his nine-year-old nephew what it should be. Milton realized that a enormous number should have a silly name. The winner was googol.
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there's a number thats called a googolplex. Thats a 1 with a googol zeros after it.
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There are (googol+1) of them.
A googol is 1 * 10^100. a googol times a googol is: 1 * 10^100 * 1 * 10^100 = 10^100 * 10^100 = 10 ^ (100 + 100) = 10^200. Therefore a googol times a googol will have 200 zeros in it.
The plural of googol is googols.
A googol is 10100 .