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In about 1920, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta coined the term googol; Milton then proposed the further term googolplex to be "one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired". Kasner decided to adopt a more formal definition "because different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have Carnera [a champion boxer] be a better mathematician than Dr. Einstein, simply because he had more endurance".
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Is the highest number googleplex or googolplex?
Googolplex is a number, googleplex is not. But it is far, far from the highest number.
Is there a lower number than negative googolplex?
Certainly. There are an infinite number of them. One of them is [ negative googolplex - 1 ] .
What is the difference of a googol and a googolplex?
A googol is the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes, and a googolplex is the number 1 followed by a googol zeroes. A googolplexplex is the number 1 followed by a googolplex zeroes, and so on.
Is a googolplex larger than infinity?
No, Infinity is never ending, where as a googolplex is a fixed number.
How is googolplex the biggest number if the are infinity?
Great question. You're right. "Googolplex" is not the biggest number.-- "Googol" = 10100-- "Googolplex" = 10googol-- "Googolplexian" = 10googolplex-- "Googolnormous" = 10googolplexian (not really; I made that one up just now)-- "Graham numbers" . . . We don't know anything about them, but they're bigger.-- "Infinity" . . . technically, not a number; defined as "more than the largest number".But . . . the catch is: There is no such thing as "largest number". Whatever numberyou want to describe, no matter how big it is, all I have to do is add ' 1 ' to yours,and I have a number that's bigger than your number.
