First used in 1940 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, the number googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
It was brought to public attention by Sirotta’s uncle, mathematician Edward Kasner, in his book Mathematics and the Imagination.
How much is the number googol?
by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Science
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