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

There are some theories that allow more than a googol of different vacuum states, in each of which the microphysics would be different.

From Scientific American • Mar. 17, 2018

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