Definition of "googol" [googol]

• The number 10 raised to the power 100 (10100), written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. (noun)

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• "June 30th, 2008 at 10: 32 am googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros. gladyz Says:"
• "Famously, Page and Brin rented a garage as their startup home and, on September 4, 1998, launched Google Inc, a deliberate mis-spelling of the word googol, the mathematical term for a one followed by a hundred zeros."
• "In a nod to their geeky roots as children of computer science and math professors, Page and Brin had derived the name from the mathematical term "googol" - a 1 followed by 100 zeros."