A 'googol' is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googolplex is 10 to the power
GoogolNumber, or 1 followed by a
GoogolNumber of zeros. A perfect number for folks that think size doesn't matter!
And my 7-year old invented Gargoogolplex, which is a googolplex googolplexes! This boy can think BIG (well, at least he can
speak BIG ;-)
You couldn't write a googolplex if the zeros were as big as protons- it would fill the known universe! Someone actually measuring this may be a fairly rare occurrence, though.
Would a gargantugoogolplex be gargoogolplex gargoogolplexes? Is this suggestive of a pattern of googol prefixes and suffixes akin to metric prefixes? Like so:
10^100 = googol
10^googol = * - plex or googolplex
10^googolplex = gar - or gargoogolplex
10^gargoogolplex = gantu or gargantugoogolplex
What would come next?
10^gargantugoogolplex = megagargantugoogolplex ???
10^megagargantugoogolplex = fuga-gargantugoogolplex ???? ..... Then Jigglypuffplexplexplexplex!!!!
The Jigglypuffplex = 10^fugafugafugafugafugagargoogolplexes
See
ReallyBigNumbers for that...
Shouldn't we follow the -plex convention?
10^N = N-plex
10^googol = googolplex
10^googolplex = googolplexplex
10^googolplexplex = googolplexplexplex
and so on. This time, we always know what comes next. --AnonymousDonor
10^Jigglypuffplex = Jigglypuffplexplex
10^Jigglypuffplexplex = Jigglypuffplexplexplex
10^Jigglypuffplexplexplex = Jigglypuffplexplexplexplex
10^Jigglypuffplexplexplexplex = Jigglypuffmegaplex .... Then ?