Googolplex

In 1938, Edward Kasner’s nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term googol, which is 10100, then proposed the further term googolplex to be “one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired”.

I propose we let 9 year olds write the next dictionary.

via Googolplex – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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