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albbi@piefed.ca 17 hours agoWait, 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 17 hours 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 12 hours 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 9 hours 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.