Parallel (Simon Singh): Googol

 Googol

The mathematical term “googol” was invented in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. A googol is 10100, which means it is written as 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.

The fact that it can be written in such a compact form, 10100, is deceiving, because it represents a phenomenonally gigantic number of mind-blowing proportions. A googol is about one hundred billion billion times bigger than the number of particles in the visible universe (1080).

Although the company and search engine Google is spelt differently, it based its name on the huge number googol, because its ambition was to provide users with huge amounts of information.

  1. What is googol squared?

  2. What is √(googol)?

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