googol
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A googolplex—1 followed by a googol of zeroes—is recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest finite, widely accepted, named number.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Cosmologists have calculated that we will reach this cosmic dead end—in which time itself ceases, as physics writer George Musser points out—in one googol years.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2021
Of Google, she says it can be an “an empty vessel who don’t know what a googol is.”
From Forbes ● Oct. 14, 2013
Science with humanity is googol times more amazing.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2013
And yet these numbers, the googol and the googolplex, do not approach, they come nowhere near, the idea of infinity.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
