A googolplex is much larger than a googol, but is still finite, as the inventor of the name was quick to point out. |
These terms – googol and googolplex – have become moderately well known today, even among the general public, because the term googol was adopted by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as the name of their search engine. |
A googolplex, or 1 followed by 10100 zeroes, is an even bigger number. |
The uncle rightly felt that the googolplex would then be a somewhat arbitrary and subjective number, so he redefined the googolplex as 10googol. |
To a mathematician, a googolplex is the figure 1 followed by a googol of zeroes. To a real-estate man, it's one infinitesimal parcel of a plot of land. |
There is also a googolplex, which is 10 to the power of a googol. |