How much is a GOOGLE?

[oldhermit]

A GOOGLE is the value of 1 with 100 zeroes after it.
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

[Abhoth]

That's a googol ... or 10 duotrigintillion ... But have fun with it though!

[Tuttle]

Yeah, but the really fun one is a googolplex, which is 1 followed by a googol of zeroes.

[judge john]

and that’s how the first person won 1million pounds in the British who wants to be a millionaire. and i knew it! . why wasn't i the contestant? dam

[oldhermit]

It's probably more than I'll earn this year.
In fact, it's probably more than everybody will earn in a lifetime, combined!
One BIG number!

Names of large and small numbers
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/numbers_names.php

[shotsi]

They don't list how many in a brazillion (heh, heh).


From the joke thread:
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing.
He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the president exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as
the president sits, head in hands.
Finally, president looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"


shotsi

[oldhermit]

A Googol is so beyond practicality to anyone, it might as well be called a Brazillion.
Back before most people even thought that there was such a thing as a Googol, there were only a few words that sounded similar, such as:
goober, a peanut
goo goo, baby talk
goo, sticky stuff
google-eyed (or was that goggle-eyed), as to stare at something
The word Google still sounds strange to anyone not familiar with the Internet.
Looks like Google had the right idea in thinking big, because their income will probably be among the first to match that amount some day. It might take a few hundred years, though.
Billions and Trillions look somewhat minute when working with numbers in the range of a Googol.

I did some figuring with the Windows calculator just to get an idea of how big this number is.
World population is currently estimated at around 6.5 billion people.
Using a rather generous count of 10 billion people, and each person has a net worth of a billion dollars, the combined total is just 10 Quintillion dollars. That's $10,000,000,000,000,000,000.
If everyone's bank accounts were increased by a billion dollars each day, it would take 1e+82 days (1 followed by 82 zeroes) before the combined worth of everyone would equal one Googol.
Couldn't get the calculator to give me a suitable figure in years, but I think this may represent a few centuries.

[shiva_42]

If you think THAT'S scary, just consider this: National budgets, debts, ect., are now into the TRILLIONS of dollars, not just billions -- but:

If you start counting the moment you are born, and count every second of your life, both waking and sleeping, until you are 65 years old, you STILL won't reach a billion.

No wonder these numbers are all but meaningless anymore!

[oldhermit]

Sa HELLO to Google Kai
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/...letters-3.html