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.
Math lovers rejoice at this mind-boggling discovery. A professor at the University of Central Missouri harnessed the power of a research computer to calculate what is now the world's largest ever prime number. It is over 22 million digits long -- 22,338,618, to be precise. That exceeds the previous record by nearly 5 million digits, according to a press release from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) Project, which is devoted to finding new prime numbers. The number is so huge it's been given its own name: M74207281.