Re: Googling

John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
>
> Later, Kasner or another defined "googolplex" as 1 to the googol'th power:
> a number too large to write down in the Observable Universe, even using
> atoms for digits.
    1 to the googolth power is, of course, just 1.  You meant 10 to the
googolth, and even then you meant "to write down in decimal notation", since
it can be written as "10^(10^100)".  Still, your basic point is correct.

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