different between googol vs googolfold
googol
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)
- The number , 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.
- 1979, Steven Pinker, "Formal models of language learning", Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:
Derived terms
- 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
- googol
Synonyms
- puluh duotrigintilion / ????? ????????????????
Portuguese
Numeral
googol m (plural googols)
- googol (1 followed by 100 zeros)
googol From the web:
- = 1.0e100
- what googolplex
- what googol means
googolfold
English
Etymology
From googol +? -fold.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??u???lfo?ld/
Adverb
googolfold (not comparable)
- (rare) By a factor of one googol.
Related terms
- hundredfold
- thousandfold
- millionfold
- billionfold
- trillionfold
- quadrillionfold
- quintillionfold
- sextillionfold
- septillionfold
- octillionfold
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