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	Googol+
		The Windows Calculator is not good enough for every task, many people need more than calculate with 32 significant digits.
		We have seen arbitrary precision calculators able to run under Microsoft Windows, but all of them are barebones and appear to have been ported from Unix to run on a console that emulates MSDOS.
		Googol+ is a long leap forward in every respect.
	www.netatelier.com /googolP (228 words)

	Googol
		Googol is "approximately" equal to the factorial of 70, and its prime factors[?] are only 2 and 5.
		The googol has no scientific use, and is most often invoked in mathematics teaching.
		Although a googol is huge, greater than the number of atoms in the universe, it is quite easy to write down in conventional notation, as follows:
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/go/Googol.html (202 words)

	Googol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The googol is of no particular significance in mathematics, but is useful when comparing with other incredibly large quantities such as the number of subatomic particles in the visible universe or the number of possible chess games.
		Using the short scale, a googol is equal to ten duotrigintillion.
		A googol is greater than the number of particles in the known universe, which has been variously estimated from 10
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Googol (628 words)

	Learn more about Googol in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		The googol has few practical uses as of yet, and is most often invoked in mathematics teaching.
		A googol is greater than the number of atoms in the known universe.
		Googol was the answer to the million-pound question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire when Major Charles Ingram attempted to defraud the quiz show on 10 September 2001.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/go/googol.html (382 words)

	PlanetMath: googol
		In fact, since a googolplex has a googol number of zeros in its decimal representation, a googoplex has more digits than there are atoms in our universe.
		The googol was created by the American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-1955) [4] in [2] to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity.
		This is version 12 of googol, born on 2002-02-22, modified 2005-11-29.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/Googol.html (279 words)

	NetNovels.com \| Novels \| Googol the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Googol knew from personal experience the river originated in the east at the mouth of the valley, but it was too far away and the air too thick to be visible from this vantage point.
		Googol the Peregrinator reached the bottom of the small hill and approached the central area of operations where the Glyss ran their factories and the river was at its most foul.
		Googol could never quite decide whether they were slightly red or slightly brown although there were shades of green and yellow and a few who were blue among their number.
	www.netwiz.net /~harryo/netnovels/novels/googol.htm (12763 words)

	factoids > googol / googolplex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		The name 'googol' was invented by a child (Dr Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it.
		A googolplex is much larger than a googol, but is still finite, as the inventor of the name was quick to point out.
		A googol times a googol would be 1 with 200 zeros, whereas a googolplex is 1 with a googol of zeros.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/cyc/g/googol.htm (298 words)

	Math Lair - A Googol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		A googol is the number written as 1 followed by 100 zeroes, or
		A googol is such an incredibly large number that it defies the imagination.
		For example, a googol is much greater than the number of particles in the universe!
	www.stormloader.com /ajy/googol.html (129 words)

	The Googolplex Page
		Another mathematician then shot back with Googolplex, and defined it to be 10 to the power of Googol, proving poor old Edward wrong in an instance.
		A Googol is nothing special; the total number of elementary particles in the known universe is about 10 to the power of 80.
		If this space was packed solid with neutrons, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would be about 10 to the power of 128 particles in it.
	www.fpx.de /fp/Fun/Googolplex (1725 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		A Dictionary of Units of Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictG.html This says: "googol a unit of quantity equal to 10^100 (1 followed by 100 zeroes).
		The googol was invented by the American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878- 1955) in 1938.
		Kasner also defined the googolplex, equal to 10^googol, that is, 1 followed by a googol of zeroes.
	mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/57575.html (239 words)

	Language Log: Google/Googol Owned?
		According to The Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun, Peri Fleisher, the great-niece of Professor Edward Kasner, who coined the term googol, is considering suing Google on behalf of her...
		According to The Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun, Peri Fleisher, the great-niece of Professor Edward Kasner, who coined the term googol, is considering suing Google on behalf of her son, who holds the copyright in Kasner's book Mathematics and the Imagination, for taking advantage of the word without compensating them.
		Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000923.html (598 words)

	What is googol and googolplex? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: googol, googolplex
		A googol is 10 to the 100th power (which is 1 followed by 100 zeros).
		A googol is larger than the number of elementary particles in the universe, which amount to only 10 to the 80th power.
		Later, another mathematician devised the term googolplex for 10 to the power of googol - that is, 1 followed by 10 to the power of 100 zeros.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci213798,00.html (234 words)

	Googol Learning Fundraising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Googol Learning's select line of products include items reviewed by parents, children and teachers.
		Schools receive educational licensed versions of the Googol Power math music cds, Nena's Math Force E-book and worksheet kit for use in their school ($45.00).
		Googol Learning Fundraisers are straight forward and easy to administer.
	www.googolpower.com /fundraising.php (424 words)

	Math CD Wins National Music Award: New Group Googol Power Awarded “Indie” for Canada’s Favourite ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Susan Jarema, creator of the Googol Power concept of layered learning through music, is thrilled by the positive response to this first album and is very honoured by this national award.
		Googol Power has just completed a second educational album, “Addition Celebration”, and has launched Googol Learning Fundraising, which provides a means of introducing educational music CDs to families as part of Canadian school fundraising activities.
		The Googol Power Math Series’ first two albums “Multiplication Vacation” and “Addition Celebration” are available at local bookstores, educational stores, Amazon.com, CD Baby and at www.googolpower.com.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/3/emw215579.php (675 words)

	Googol Fun
		It turns out that this "googol" is an accepted number by the mathematics
		long time to imagine how large a number a googol really is, I came up with a thought experiment.
		By the way, it is not even close to a googol......
	aaoj.info /googol.html (467 words)

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