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Exista cuvantul googolplex. El defineste numarul 10^{10100
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In about 1920, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta coined the term "googol"; Milton then proposed the further term "googolplex" to be "one, followed by writing zeroes until you got tired." Kasner decided to adopt a more formal definition "because different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have Carnera [a champion boxer] a better mathematician than Dr. Einstein, simply because he had more endurance." [wikipedia]

Si cum googolplex este un numar mai mare decat numarul tuturor particulelor din univers (care nu sunt decat 10 la puterea 87), el nu s-ar putea scrie nici daca toata materia s-ar transforma in hartie, cerneala sau diskdrives.
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Cu aceasta ocazie am aflat ca numerele extraordinar de mari au, de multe ori, nume. Dragut.
Si, oricum, For the author, see Nikolai Gogol.