A googol is a one followed by a hundred zeroes.
A googolplex is a one followed by a googol of zeroes.
Tad asks me repeatedly what the biggest number is. I say that there is no "biggest number". Numbers go to infinity, just like God. Since learning recently that a googol is a one followed by a hundred zeroes, Tad (on his own) decided that a "googol of googols" must be just about the biggest number out there.
And yet (very ironically)...
"A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number one." (Carl Sagan, Cosmos)
How great is our God!
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