The number 10^{10^{100}} or 10^\text{googol}, ten to the power of a googol.
The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and the…
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(figuratively) A countable number.
Consider that we can start with one googolplex and count: two googolplexes, three googolplexes and so on up to a googolplex googolplexes and beyond—and still not have reached infinity.
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(US, real estate, nonstandard, rare) An infinitesimally small portion of land, defined for legal purposes.
If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10128 particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.
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