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.
Number Types. Numbers are classified according to type. The first type of number is the first type you ever learned about: the counting, or natural numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... The next type is the whole numbers, which are the natural numbers together with zero: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... Then come the integers, which are zero, the natural numbers, and the negatives of the naturals: