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Re: TRANS.: nat-&-conlang "googolgigglabyte"

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Monday, July 15, 2002, 5:16
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 15:05, Roger Mills wrote:

> A googol 10^100 (is that written correctly?) would simply be _fola matu > rongo_ 'ten to the hundredth power'. Is there a name for 10^1000? > 10^1,000,000? etc.
A 10^(10^100) is a googolplex (that is, 10 to the power of a googol), I believe. For some reason, I want to say it as 'googaplex'. I guess a combination of -l-dropping and the 'giga-' prefix. Tristan