Talk:Googol

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The beginning of the article is not accurate, it says 10⁹⁹, == 1 with 100 zeros, this is not accurate, its eather 10*10⁹⁹ or 99 zeros , coz 10² =100, two zeros!!

The article is accurate and I believe you answered your own question. 10² is 100 which is one followed by two zeros. 10³ is 1000 which is one followed by three zeros. 10¹⁰⁰ is one followed by one-hundred zeros.

According to some scientists, a googol is probably greater than the number of atoms in the universe. Since this is also the number of zeroes in a googolplex, it would not be possible to write down or store this number (googolplex) in decimal notation, even if all the matter in the universe were converted into paper and ink or disk drives.

hang on, we do write this in decimal above don't we? Do we mean that a gp is greater than the no of atoms?212.42.97.53 11:49, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)

A googol can be written in decimal, however a googolplex can not because it contains a googol number of zeros- meaning it has more zeros than all the atoms in the universe. Er.. but you probably knew that. I dunno. Evil saltine 11:57, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Based on the assumption that there was a big bang, and that there was only one big bang, and that far away things have a different colour, and some kind of weird space observations, some think that there are less than a googol atoms in the universe. And even though the alien lord Fnord Meow Squeak told me otherwise, through the voices in my head, some stubborn people still think the universe is that small. Κσυπ Cyp 12:00, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC) (Posted via edit conflict.)

Well, 10^100=10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 so I guess I could write it down googol :) However to the point of this article, attempting to calculate the googolplex using Mathematica causes overflow error. Oh well.. mattabat

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I just put in the message about drawing a googolgon into this article now that googolgon is on its final day of Vfd and will probably have a consensus of re-directing here. Can anyone put in the picture?? 66.245.126.39 13:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I finally put it in. Any comments about improving the googol article?? 66.245.19.157 16:45, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It isn't necessary to note it is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes since that is at the very beginning of the article. Also it doesn't fit the category which is how to write a googol. The definition is already provided. --RoyBoy 22:50, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)