Question

What is a googolplex and what is it used for?

Answer 1

googleplex is a huge number

Answer 2

How huge?

Answer 3

\[10^{10^{100}}\]

Answer 4

ಠ_ಠ

Answer 5

its a huge number, and you know there is another number thats has a similar name

Answer 6

its called googol,

Answer 7

so a googol is 10^100?

Answer 8

we can even write googolplex as: \[\huge 10^{googol}\]

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

Cool

Answer 11

You should be able to write it 10^10,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000

Answer 12

\[\huge {\color{Golden}{GOOGOLPLEX\:IS\:\:A\:HUGE\:NUMBER}}\]

Answer 13

WHY WOULD YOU NEED IT?

Answer 14

Ah

Answer 15

it's not used for anything.

Answer 16

there is no quantity in the universe that is usefully measured with a googleplex

Answer 17

well there you go

Answer 18

The total number of atoms in the universe is only 10^80

Answer 19

Googleplex is such a big number that you literally couldn't even write the number down, even if you turned every atom in the universe into a 0. A googleplex has 10^100 zeros in it, but there are only 10^80 atoms to "write with".

Answer 20

Woah, so a googleplex is bigger that the observable universe?

Answer 21

than*

Answer 22

the number itself, if written down in decimal form without exponentiation, is bigger than the universe

Answer 23

let alone the quantity that the number represents!

Answer 24

i mean, the smaller number, a googol, which is "only" 10^100, can at least be written down (10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000), even though the number it represents is larger than the number of atoms in the universe.

a googol plex is a number that has a googol zeroes after it -- that's a number you can't even write down!

Answer 25

Mindblowing!

Answer 26

So there arent enough atoms in the world to write a googleplex down?

Answer 27

right

Answer 28

So... big...