Question: My brother says there is a number called googolplex does it exist?

Asked by louiepop to DJ, Mia, Mick on 5 Sep 2013.

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  1. Photo: Mia CobbMia Cobb
    answered on 5 Sep 2013:

    A ‘Googol’ is a number, it’s 10 to the power of 100 (10^100), or = to a 1 followed by one hundred 0’s.

    A Googolplex is also a number, it’s 10 to the power of a Googol (10^googol) or a 1 followed by a googol zeroes.

    Your brother is right 🙂

    See Carl Sagan (legend!) explain: http://youtu.be/0lFQOmb6mVs

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  1. Photo: MiaMia
    commented on 5 Sep 2013:

    Here’s a link to see a googolplex written out: http://www.stanford.edu/~nitsche/cgi-bin/numbers.pl?googolplex
    😀

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  2. Photo: louiepoplouiepop
    commented on 6 Sep 2013:

    Btw my bros is only 6!

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    • Photo: MiaMia
      commented on 6 Sep 2013:

      Awesome! Little kids ask some of the BEST questions! They are really open to all sorts of possibilities and consider more things that adults shut down (too early!) – this was fun for me to learn about too 🙂

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