New Words : Googol

12. Googol :

noun :

A cardinal number that is equivalent to ten raised top the power of a hundred. This word was purportedly coined in the 1940s by the young nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.

10¹⁰⁰



googol mathematics :

The number represented in base-ten by a one with a hundred zeroes after it.



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