Mathematics

What is the largest number that you know?

Published: March 17, 2013 Reading time: 4 min

A googol: 1 followed by 100 zeros. Still tiny next to a googolplex. Tonight I was talking with a friend about bad news for Google when he asked, almost as a side note: Did you know googol is a number? I did not. I knew Google, not googol. So I went looking — and fell into the oddly satisfying rabbit hole of named large numbers. ...

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