different between googol vs gogol

English

Etymology

Coined by Milton Sirotta in 1920 who was then the young nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner who had asked Milton to think of a name for the hypothetical number of 10 to the 100th power. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??u?.??l/, /??u?.??l/
• (General American) enPR: go?o?g?l, go?o?g?l, IPA^(key): /??u.??l/, /??u.??l/
• Rhymes: -u???l
• Homophones: google, Google

Numeral

googol (plural googols)

1. The number ${\displaystyle 10^{100}}$, or ten to the power of a hundred. [from 1920.]
   • 1979, Steven Pinker, "Formal models of language learning", Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:

     For example, in considering all the finite state grammars that use seven terminal symbols and seven auxiliary symbols (states), [...] he must test over a googol (10^100) candidates.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• Google
• googolplex
• googolplexplex
• googolplexth
• googolth
• googillion

Translations

References

• “googol” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “googol”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Malay

Alternative forms

• ??????

Etymology

Borrowed from English googol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ol/
• Rhymes: -o?ol, -?ol, -ol

Numeral

googol

1. googol

Synonyms

• puluh duotrigintilion / ????? ????????????????

Portuguese

Numeral

googol m (plural googols)

1. googol (1 followed by 100 zeros)

English

Noun

gogol

1. Misspelling of googol.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.??l/

Etymology 1

From English googol.

Noun

gogol m (plural gogols)

1. googol

Etymology 2

From mongol.

Noun

gogol m (plural gogols, feminine gogole)

1. (derogatory) idiot

   Quelle gogole celle-là.