goo·gol (g  gôl , -g l)n. The number 10 raised to the power 100 (10100), written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. [Coined at the age of nine by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner (1878-1955), American mathematician.] |
googol [ˈguːgɒl -gəl]
n
(Mathematics) the number represented as one followed by 100 zeros (10100)
[coined by E. Kasner (1878-1955), American mathematician]
| googol (ggôl, ggl) The number 10 raised to the 100th power (10100), written out as 1 followed by 100 zeros. |
googol - Coined when mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nephew to create a word for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
See also related terms for zero.
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| Noun | 1. | googol - a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred) cardinal number, cardinal - the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order |
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