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单词 googol
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Definition of googol in English:

googol

cardinal number ˈɡuːɡɒlˈɡo͞oˌɡôl
  • Equivalent to ten raised to the power of a hundred (10¹⁰⁰).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then, maybe they notice that a googol plus one is also a number, and they realize that although the names for numbers run out, the numbers themselves never do.
    • Even bigger than a googol, according to Kasner, is a googolplex, a 1 followed by a googol zeros.
    • Steven J. Wilson's Integermania page has an incomplete set of solutions up to a googol, along with several related problems.
    • There is also a googolplex, which is 10 to the power of a googol.
    • Just five years ago a googol was an obscure, unimaginable concept: the number one followed by 100 zeros.

Origin

1940s: said to have been coined by the nine-year-old nephew of E. Kasner (1878–1955), American mathematician, at Kasner's request.

 
 

Definition of googol in US English:

googol

cardinal numberˈɡo͞oˌɡôl
  • Equivalent to ten raised to the power of a hundred (10¹⁰⁰).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even bigger than a googol, according to Kasner, is a googolplex, a 1 followed by a googol zeros.
    • There is also a googolplex, which is 10 to the power of a googol.
    • Just five years ago a googol was an obscure, unimaginable concept: the number one followed by 100 zeros.
    • Then, maybe they notice that a googol plus one is also a number, and they realize that although the names for numbers run out, the numbers themselves never do.
    • Steven J. Wilson's Integermania page has an incomplete set of solutions up to a googol, along with several related problems.

Origin

1940s: said to have been coined by the nine-year-old nephew of E. Kasner (1878–1955), American mathematician, at Kasner's request.

 
 
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