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googol

goo·gol

UK/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/ US/ˈɡuː.ɡɒl/ uncommon

noun

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a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)

Origin

Coined by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

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