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otter@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoIt feels like being back on the playground
“nuh uh, my laser is 1000% more powerful”
“oh yea, mine is googleplex percent more powerful”
Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children
otter@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoIt feels like being back on the playground
“nuh uh, my laser is 1000% more powerful”
“oh yea, mine is googleplex percent more powerful”
albbi@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Wait, what? My son has been using “googleplex” when he wants a really big number. I thought it was a weird word he made up. I guess it’s a thing….
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is, with a slight different spelling. A googol is 10^100, a googolplex is a 10^(googol) or written conveniently, a one followed by a metric shit ton of zeros.
albbi@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I wondered if the word had something to do with a googol (I learned that word from World Book Encyclopedia kids books), but I figured my young son didn’t know that word yet and just invented some word using Google. Crazy how language can get around on the playground.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Fun fact, Google was supposed to be named Googol, but the guy who were tasked with ordering the domain name misunderstood. As history would tell, they just decided to stick with Google.
makkurokurosuke@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My son also uses it frequently, he learnt that word from a Captain Underpants book or one of the other works from dav pilkey so maybe its from there