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How Many Noughts ?
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A googol is an inconceivable number made up of a '1' followed by one hundred (100) noughts.
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ten billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion is a googol. There are a googol zeroes in a googolplex. There are ten billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion zeroes in a googolplex.
08:08 Thu 11th May 2023
Aaah the good ol' "googol"
This was the million pound question on "who wants to be a millionaire" when Charles Ingram allegedly cheated. I was screaming the answer out at the TV before the answers even appeared.
As for a googolplex - if I remember correctly, there isn't enough room in the known universe to write the number out in its full form .... kinda puts into perspective just how big a googolplex is :)
This was the million pound question on "who wants to be a millionaire" when Charles Ingram allegedly cheated. I was screaming the answer out at the TV before the answers even appeared.
As for a googolplex - if I remember correctly, there isn't enough room in the known universe to write the number out in its full form .... kinda puts into perspective just how big a googolplex is :)
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Clare, firstly thanks for your input!! Assuming the American billion (the number 1 followed by 9 zeros) and if I am correct in saying that,
10,000,000,000,000,000,000 can be pronounced as ten billion, billion then you will agree this is a number which contains nineteen (19) zeros after the one (1).
Is it correct to say your number in post >17.40 is a one followed by one hundred zeros which is defined as a googol??
In other words 10^100 = Googol which is not a googolplex. 10^googol = googolplex. Please clarify!!
The question still stands. How many zeros does a googolplex contain??
10,000,000,000,000,000,000 can be pronounced as ten billion, billion then you will agree this is a number which contains nineteen (19) zeros after the one (1).
Is it correct to say your number in post >17.40 is a one followed by one hundred zeros which is defined as a googol??
In other words 10^100 = Googol which is not a googolplex. 10^googol = googolplex. Please clarify!!
The question still stands. How many zeros does a googolplex contain??
>08.40
Even with my limited math knowledge LOL I am sorry but I cannot agree!!
For example:
10^1000 (ten to the power of a thousand) is a number which contains one thousand zeros after the one. Hopefully you will agree this is a number far greater than a googol, because a googol only has one hundred zeros after the one? But to my mind (10^1000) is still very much smaller than a googolplex. Hopefully you will agree with this statement too??
Even with my limited math knowledge LOL I am sorry but I cannot agree!!
For example:
10^1000 (ten to the power of a thousand) is a number which contains one thousand zeros after the one. Hopefully you will agree this is a number far greater than a googol, because a googol only has one hundred zeros after the one? But to my mind (10^1000) is still very much smaller than a googolplex. Hopefully you will agree with this statement too??
// As for a googolplex - if I remember correctly, there isn't enough room in the known universe to write the number out in its full form ... //
Yup, you do remember correctly. Depending, perhaps, on what assumptions you make about the universe at small scales, this is probably true for any number on the order of a googol squared, though, which is much, much smaller than a googol!
What's perhaps even more impressive is that, if you assume that you could fit each digit into the tiniest possible space, and in the tiniest possible fraction of a second, scrubbed every digit out and instantly replaced them with the next lot... you still wouldn't get close until the Universe was about a billion billion billion.... billion times older, where there are about a (billion billion billion)^4 iterations of the word "billion" :P
I can't be bothered to check how precise this is but it's pretty close.
Yup, you do remember correctly. Depending, perhaps, on what assumptions you make about the universe at small scales, this is probably true for any number on the order of a googol squared, though, which is much, much smaller than a googol!
What's perhaps even more impressive is that, if you assume that you could fit each digit into the tiniest possible space, and in the tiniest possible fraction of a second, scrubbed every digit out and instantly replaced them with the next lot... you still wouldn't get close until the Universe was about a billion billion billion.... billion times older, where there are about a (billion billion billion)^4 iterations of the word "billion" :P
I can't be bothered to check how precise this is but it's pretty close.
just to give an idea of how big a googol is, consider a pack of playing cards:
if you shuffle it at 1 shuffle per second, it would take approximately 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times the age of the universe to arrange the cards in every possible order.
the number of orderings is only 1/100000000000000000000000000000000 of a googol
if you shuffle it at 1 shuffle per second, it would take approximately 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times the age of the universe to arrange the cards in every possible order.
the number of orderings is only 1/100000000000000000000000000000000 of a googol
