Word: googolplex
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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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...