The day the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War..  Afghanistan, then, in a sense, became the United States' pawn.
Surprisingly, only 70 people. 3. But a googol isn't the largest named number. A googol is 1.0 x 10 - a one followed by 100 zeros. An even bigger number is the googolplex, which is 1.0 x 10googol-a one followed by a googol of zeros. Now, let's get an idea about the size of a googolplex. Ok, let's stop there. That isn't a googolplex, it's a one followed by 1,000 zeros.
Atomic number and mass number. The atomic number of an atom is the number of protons it contains. All the atoms of a particular element have the same atomic number (number of protons). The atoms of different elements have different numbers of protons. For example, all oxygen atoms have 8 protons and all sodium atoms have 11 protons. The mass number of an atom is the total number of protons and neutrons it contains.