English Explanatory Dictionary

googol

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).

Pronunciation

/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/ /ˈɡuː.ɡɒl/ go͞o′gəl go͞o′gŏl /ˈɡu.ɡəl/ /ˈɡu.ɡɑl/ en-us-googol.ogg en-uk-Google.ogg

Word forms

googol googols

Etymology

Coined by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

Derived words

googillion Google googolbyte googolfold googolgon googology googolplex googolplexplex googolplexth googolth
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