Googol

Googol is a large number, equal to $$10^{100}$$ or 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was coined by Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta. The name appears to have no particular meaning.

The number googol is shown below.

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

The googol, in the American system, is equal to ten duotrigintillion, or ten sexdecilliard in the British system.

The company Google decided to name their search engine after Googol, because their goal was to have a useful and large database of pages.