Very funny that there are special names for such huge ammounts of zero's in a row don't you think? Google made a nice choise basing their company on that, so we can all think of them as "almost infinite" possiblity's possible

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Wow, I've never even heard of these types of numbers before and didn't know that there was a special type of number for 103 zeros. I assumed there'd be a type for 100 though, as it's a well rounded number.

I don't think we'll ever need to use them in our lifetimes and feel that if we did, it'd be too complicated and we'd have to write everything in standard form (1 x 10^103) otherwise we'd run out of space on the paper or where-ever it was we were going to write it.

However, maybe in the future, there will be a need. For example, there may be new forms of technology available which have this amount of space or memory.

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Thats very useful information but now I am thinking whether we can use it in our day to day conversations or not and that too without people asking me what in the name of Holy God am I talking about.
Anyways thanx for the information

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The thought of numbers that big just makes my brain hurt. Hehe rahul, when would you be using these words in day-to-day conversations? I think you'd have to come up with excuses just to use them, and then probably nobody would understand- unless your friends are all mathematicians!

Google is a good name also because it reminds people (well, me) of ogle, and it helps you look for (at) things.

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Cool, thanks for the tip, now i can use the word centillian besides using just million.
On second thought, I'll use infinite
Just fooling around, will there be a word bigger than centillian other than infinite?
I'm just curious, but i don't think we can ever use it, the number is too long and big to be used, a sentence with this large number will also look like spam, lol..

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First time I heard about googleplex was the 6th grade, but now they thought of a new one.

That is just insane and the grahams number link that just make my skull want to explode. I don't think even stephen Hawking could do anything with that, without spending a few years with it.

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Surely you'd use scientific notation?

2.5x10^105?

Or is it 2.5x10^103?

Not sure, but 250/103 is wrong, I think

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Alright, you cant a googelplex out. Its simple. The number atoms in the universe is estimated to be between 10^69 to 10^82.... a googelplex has a googel, or 10^100 numbers... so even if every atom in the universe represented a number.... theres not NEARLY enough atoms to make a googelplex. In fact the number of atoms in the universe would only be 0.0000000000000001% of the number needed to write out a googelplex.

-DavidCraft

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Googelplex
What Is A Centillian?

Actually, a Googelplex is a googel time a googel... So something like a million zeroes. I can think of no reason to have a number that big. But thats probably why google is called that exact thing! :D

-reply by LiveAndLetLive

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it is someone who has aged 100 years onwards as easy as that

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