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Numbers

SciShow Tangents

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Google Plex Written Out

In 1938 an American mathematician named Edward Kasner asked his nine-year-old nephew to come up with a name for the number 10 to the 100. Later Milton suggested an even larger number called the Google Plex that would be one followed by as many zeros that you can write before getting tired. Kasner decided that the value Google Plex should be 10 to the Google, but it's so large some people think it cannot be written in full.

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