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.
What's the biggest number? Numbers go on forever â but on the way to infinity, there are some pretty remote way posts. To our ancestors, a million was as big as numbers needed to get. There was no need to invoke the billions (1,000,000,000) of finance or the terabytes (1012) of computing. Technology has made us blasÃ© about using 9 or 12 digit numbers in conversation.