googol
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googol (plural googols)
- cln en The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred. [from 1920.]
- 1979, Steven Pinker, "Formal models of language learning", Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:
- For example, in considering all the finite state grammars that use seven terminal symbols and seven auxiliary symbols (states), [...] he must test over a googol (10^100) candidates.
- 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, chapter IX
- If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10128 particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.
- 1979, Steven Pinker, "Formal models of language learning", Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:
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