Lightning strikes near the town of Searchlight, Nevada as the first storm of the season passes through the western deserts of the United States in the early hours of June 8, 2006. (REUTERS/Gene Blevins)
October 23
googol \GOO-gawl\
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Definition
noun
:
the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros equal to 10100
Examples
In January 1997, astronomers Fred Adams and Gregory Laughlin predicted that the universe would end in a number of years equal to approximately onegoogol.
“Google spits out massive amounts of information. Even the name Google, a misspelling of ‘googol‘— the number one followed by 100 zeros—isinnuendo, delivering a promise of massive amounts of results with each search.” — Alexis Sobel Fitts, The Huffington Post, 25 Aug. 2015