What is a googol?

zbeckabee

A googol is the large number 10 to the 100th, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros (in decimal representation). The term was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta (1929–1980), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol Oct 08 08, 7:39 AM

gopikrishnamsc

1 googol = 1.0 × 10100 The term was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta. A googol has no particular significance in mathematics, but is useful when comparing with other incredibly large quantities such as the number of subatomic particles in the visible universe or the number of possible chess games. Oct 08 08, 9:58 AM