Yea, a googol is big, but it's nothing compared to g64 (a.k.a. Graham's number). Imagine taking the number 3, then cubing it, then cubing the result, then cubing that result, and so on and so forth until you have done a total of 64 cubing operations. Now that is a fantastic number.

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I actually heard that a Googolplex was the largest named number, but obviously not haha.

So, Graham's number then, would be equivalent to 3 to the power of 64?

Cool.

=D

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Not exactly. It's 3 to the power of 3. Then that number to the power of 3, then that result to the power of 3, and so and and so forth until you have raised a number to the third power 64 times.

In other words:
3³ = 9
9³= 729
729³ = 387420489
387420489³ = 5.8149737 × 10²⁵
(5.8149737 × 10²⁵)³ = 1.9662705 × 10⁷⁷
Keep going and going, until you have done raised a number to the 3rd power for the 64th time.

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I guess you learn a new thing every day.

I still dont fully understand what it means but it's nice to know where google got the name from.

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I have two books on Google here. It happened to say that a friend of theirs who rented them a Garage at Menlo Park where they started Google, came up with Google. I am, however, not sure with my memory status, i may have given the wrong details. By the way, Grahams' theory is superb. 2 to the power of 2 = 2Cube. I learnt that in mathematics class when i was young? It's syllabus requirement.

By the way, Google is created, by Larry and Sergey under a purpose and motto which is to get all the information in the world into one place and their motto/logo/slogan is: "Do Not Be Evil". I guess that has to do with them buying over small startups. (Bully, i had dare shout at em')

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Always nice to know.

Google are really world-dominant you ask me. Perhaps they could CHANGE the currency and say "Hell yeah, we gotz teh googol's!"

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Naw, they won't, seriously. Google are a bunch of uber geeks who pawnt nothing else but the World of Geekcraft. (-In specific, search technology and buying over new startups)

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I recently read something about this, The creaters of google misspelled googol and thats how they came up with their name Google's main building is called the googleplex. To a recently earlier post who I cant remember did it, Yes it is google who has slides in their building. Accompanied by a gym, spa and a pool. Every year google takes its employees on a ski trip.

DREAM JOB FTW

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Why you consider it is fantastic? It could exist, every single number, written by digit, followed by another digits, is a number, which could exist.

You could only not call it with a name

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