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googolplex

goo·golp·lex

UK/ˈɡuːɡəlplɛks/ US/ˈɡuːɡɒl-/ uncommon rare us

noun

1.

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

Origin

From googol + -plex, coined by American mathematician Milton Sirotta in 1920 who was then the young nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner. First published and defined in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

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