There are more zeroes in a Googolplex than there are individual particles in the Universe!

There are more zeroes in a Googolplex than there are individual particles in the Universe!

Ladies and gentlemen, number nerds from around the world - prepare to be amazed. The googolplex was first proposed by Edward Kasner in 1938 as one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired". But to explain what a Googolplex is, you have to understand what a Googol is.

A googol is the digit one followed by 100 zeroes. This number is commonly represented 10^100. It looks like this: 10,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­00!

A googolplex on the other hand, is the number 10^Googol. It is commonly represented like this: 10^10^100. It's a lot of zeroes.

In fact, there are so many that if you were to try to count using particles of the universe, you would run out of particles before you reached a Googolplex!

To further explain how large a Googolplex is, Carl Sagan estimated that writing out every zero in a googolplex would be impossible, because it would take up more space than is available in the visible universe!

And yes, Google is named after Googol.

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