10 raised to the power 100

Akronim: Googol

Googol
1 googol = 10 raised to the power 100 = 10100 (i.e. 1 followed
by 100 noughts = 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
The number was named in 1983 by Milton Sirotta after his uncle (the mathematician
Edward Kasner) asked him to think up a name for the number. See also
googolplex.
The search engine Google
is rumoured to be named as a play on the word Googol.
Relevant links:

www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/g/googol.htm

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