Word: googolplex
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...been thinking about googols for some years. It is too large a number ever to be used for physical enumeration, since Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington estimates the number of electrons in the entire universe to be 1 followed by 79 zeros. The googolplex is so large a number that it could not be written on a piece of paper stretching across the visible universe (some 1,000,000,000 light-years...
Nevertheless, the improbability of some events possible in theoretical physics is so great that a number somewhere be tween a googol and a googolplex would be required to express it. However, Dr. Kasner points out that no number is anywhere near infinity so long as it can actually or theoretically be written...
Since the googolplex could be written out if more writing space were available in the universe, it is nowhere near infinity...
...Kasner last week said he had received letters from several notable persons of eclectic interest, commending him for his choice of the name "googol" for his number. Both "googol" and "googolplex" were suggested to him by his nephew, at that time aged...