Googol and Googolplex - Numberphile
We're talking pretty big numbers here... And an interesting idea about what it'd be like traveling in a Googolplex-sized Universe! More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ With...
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ANTONIO PADILLA: Imagine you had a universe which was agoogolplex meters across, OK, so a big universe.Then, that's very big.And if you actually traveled far enough in that universe,you would start to see repetitions.You would start to see exact copies of yourself.RIA SYMONDS: Today, we've got a googol.ANTONIO PADILLA: A Google.RIA SYMONDS: A googol.ANTONIO PADILLA: As in the website.RIA SYMONDS: Kind of, not spelt the same.It's spelt G-O-O-G-O-L, 10 to the power of 100.So imagine that's a 1 with 100 0's after it.ANTONIO PADILLA: And it came about because it was--a guy called Kasner, who was a mathematician.He was also very famous in cosmology.RIA SYMONDS: And it wasn't him that came up with the name.He just thought of a ...
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ANTONIO PADILLA: Imagine you had a universe which was agoogolplex meters across, OK, so a big universe.Then, that's very big.And if you actually traveled far enough in that universe,you would start to see repetitions.You would start to see exact copies of yourself.RIA SYMONDS: Today, we've got a googol.ANTONIO PADILLA: A Google.RIA SYMONDS: A googol.ANTONIO PADILLA: As in the website.RIA SYMONDS: Kind of, not spelt the same.It's spelt G-O-O-G-O-L, 10 to the power of 100.So imagine that's a 1 with 100 0's after it.ANTONIO PADILLA: And it came about because it was--a guy called Kasner, who was a mathematician.He was also very famous in cosmology.RIA SYMONDS: And it wasn't him that came up with the name.He just thought of a ...
