What Is A Centillian?

delivi

Jul 11 2006, 09:28 PM

A Centillian is a number in which 1 is followed by 103 zeros.

A centillian is,

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10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000

A word description of what 103 zeros would have been sufficient. There's no need to type it out.

husker

Jul 11 2006, 09:54 PM

That's cool, but do you think anyone will ever use it? Maybe to describe gas in the next 100 years lol. I would hate to write that out. What if you missed a 0?

brautigam

Jul 12 2006, 12:24 AM

A googel is a 1 followed by 100 zeros:

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10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000

And a googelplex is a 1 followed by a googel zeros:

This will take up probable 20 miles of room if writted out on a line, just think about it, a 1 followed by a googel zeros

Gyad

Jul 13 2006, 07:35 AM

Is there even a reason to make such a word as Centillian or Googleplex?

I don't see much point in making a number that has 103 zeros...

pb-gnat

Jul 13 2006, 08:13 AM

This might be an interesting read for you all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

msabas

Jul 17 2006, 02:25 PM

well i think it would make sense that if you had to use it use it as a fraction to represent it instead of having to write down all the zeros.

So for example if you wrote it it would be suach as 250 centillian = 250/103

Sprnknwn

Jul 17 2006, 05:40 PM

I´m confused. I was never good at maths

but what´s the point of this? I mean... if there is a name for a number which is a 1 followed by 103 zeros... should be another with 33 zeros, 8 zeros, 3426899 zeros? I suppose there must be a logical reason for 103 zeros. If not, it´s completely dumb.

uiop

Jul 17 2006, 08:06 PM

It is completely and utterly impossible to write a googelplex. Even if all the known matter in the universe was converted into paper or disk space, there would not be enough matter to write down a googelplex!

DarkPsycho

Jul 18 2006, 01:59 AM

QUOTE(uiop @ Jul 17 2006, 04:06 PM)

i don't know about that

i'm pretty sure it would be possible to write down a googelplex

Plenoptic

Jul 18 2006, 02:03 AM

lol I think it is just a way to name them for any given reason. People who are interested in numbers will use it like those trying to find the largest prime number. I think it is also just to say that there are huge numbers. People will use it to describe a large quantity of something just to exagerate like a billion times or whatever. There are other uses but we generally won't need it.

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jopak134

Jun 20 2008, 10:45 AM

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

iGuest

May 16 2008, 03:30 AM

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

iGuest

Oct 7 2007, 04:22 PM

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

Terciel Silvi

Dec 20 2006, 04:52 PM

QUOTE(msabas @ Jul 17 2006, 02:25 PM)

Surely you'd use scientific notation?

2.5x10^105?

Or is it 2.5x10^103?

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

Saint_Michael

Oct 26 2006, 02:02 AM

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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