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Googol (num) means the number one followed by a hundred zeros.

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The number one followed by a hundred zeros.
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Etymology

Coined by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

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"googol" (num) means the number one followed by a hundred zeros.
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