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Googol

DEFINITION

Is a funny sounding term used to describe 10 to the one hundredth power, or the number one followed by one hundred zeros like: 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

It is recorded that American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-1955), is credited with coining the terminology, however his nine-year old nephew apparently originally invented the term. Ironically, this term is closely related to the massive internet search engine technology company Google, which is dominant in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century’s World Wide Web.