Definition of GOOGOL

googol

Meanings

Plural: googols

Noun

  • a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)

Num

  • The number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).

Origin / Etymology

Coined by nine-year-old by Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

Scrabble Score: 8

googol is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
googol is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
googol is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

googol is a valid Words With Friends word