Googol definition

Googol

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WordNet

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

WiktionaryText

Made up in 1938 by the nine year old Milton Sirrota, the nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner.

The number 10¹⁰⁰, written as 1 followed by 100 zeros.
- 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, chapter IX
  
  If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10¹²⁸ particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.