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.
7. 2^43,112,609 â 1. The third largest number on this list, the number of all the plank volumes in the universe, consists of 185 digits. This number here consists of almost 13 million digits. The significance of this number is that it is currently the largest known prime number. It was discovered in August of 2008 by the Great Internet Messene Prime Search (GIMPS). From here on the numbers become much more difficult to render.