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A 'googol' is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros — basically what your bank account doesn’t look like.

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A googol is 10^100, which is far larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe (often estimated around 10^80). It was coined to show how quickly numbers explode in scale once you use exponents.

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