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Googol

Updated: 11/12/2023 by Computer Hope
Ten to the one hundredth power.

A googol is a term invented by Dr. Edward Kasner's nephew Milton Sirotta in 1920, a googol is 10100, 1.e+100, or 1 followed by one hundred zeros.

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This term is what helped inspire the name Google, the name for the popular search engine.

Google, Googolplex, Measurements

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