The word googol was invented by the American Mathematician Edward Kasner in order to represent the number `10^100`. This is the same of writing number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Regarding Maths the number isn't useful at all and it is only used to represent a really big number, but it is even far from the infinite.
Let´s see some curiosities concerning this number:
If we look at the Googol number as being so big, so we have to face the Googolplex one as gigantic since it means `10^text(googol)`.
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