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What does googolplex mean?

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  1. (cardinal number) The number
  2. (figuratively) An unimaginably large number.
  3. (US, real estate, nonstandard, rare) An infinitesimally small portion of land, defined for legal purposes.
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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.

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