Googol

English

Etymology

Template:Etymon Coined by nine-year-old Template:Coin, nephew of American mathematician Template:W, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Template:W (1940).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

1. Template:Senseid Template:Cln The number $10^{100}$, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale). Template:Defdate
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Translations

• Bulgarian: Template:T
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Template:T

• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T+
• Estonian: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T
• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T, Template:T
• Lithuanian: Template:T
• Malay:

  Jawi: Template:T

  Rumi: Template:T

• Norwegian: Template:T

  Bokmål: Template:T

  Nynorsk: Template:T

• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T
• Ukrainian: Template:T

References

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Finnish

Etymology

From Template:Bor.

Numeral

1. Template:Cln googol

Portuguese

Numeral

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