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July 27th, 2003, 08:09 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
Yes, 10^100 is a googol. The term was coined by a mathematician (I think Kasner ???) who got the word from his young nephew or relative.
10^googol is a googolplex.
Numbers of this magnitude are rarely used. I have seen them in calculations of things like estimating the number of electrons in the universe and things like that.
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