googol
Plural: googols
Noun
- The number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros.
- a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)
Num
- The number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).
Examples
- If I could score a GOOGOL points, I’d win this Scrabble game easily.
Origin / Etymology
Coined by nine-year-old by 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).
Scrabble Score: 8
googol: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgoogol: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
googol: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
googol: valid Words With Friends Word