Word: googolplex
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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TIME, Feb. 28, p. 28 ". . . The googolplex is so large a number that it could not be written on a piece of paper stretching across the visible universe...
...definition, a googolplex is the number "1 followed by a googol of zeros," a googol being equal...
...Reader Sweet mend his mathematics: a googol is not equal to 10². Ten squared is simply 100. Reader Sweet's googolplex is not a googolplex but merely a googol squared. By using a series of ascending powers, a googolplex could be written in comparatively small space; written straight out, it would, as TIME said, stretch further than the visible universe...
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...