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googolplex

The origin and history of googolplex.

Etymology

Formed from googol, itself a coined number name, with the suffix -plex. The word was coined in 1920 by the young American Milton Sirotta, nephew of the mathematician Edward Kasner, and first appeared in print in the 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination.

Origin: English

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