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goo·gol    Audio Help   [goo-gawl, -gol, -guhl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed as 10100.

[Origin: 1935–40; introduced by U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner (1878–1955), whose nine-year-old nephew allegedly invented it]
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goo·gol    Audio Help   (gōō'gôl', -gəl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The number 10 raised to the power 100 (10100), written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.


[Coined at the age of nine by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner (1878-1955), American mathematician.]

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googol 
coined 1940, supposedly by the 9-year-old nephew (who is not named in any of the stories) of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasmer, when asked for a name for an enormous number. Perhaps influenced by comic strip character Barney Google.

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googol

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

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googol    Audio Help   (g'gôl', g'gəl)  Pronunciation Key 
The number 10 raised to the 100th power (10100), written out as 1 followed by 100 zeros.

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googol mathematics
The number represented in base-ten by a one with a hundred zeroes after it.
According to Webster's Dictionary, the name was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician, Edward Kasner.
See also googolplex.
(2001-03-29)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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