The number equating to 1 followed by 100 zeroes is known as a what?
Googolplex Googolplex A googolplex is the number 10, or equivalently, 10. Written out in ordinary decimal notation, it is 1 followed by 10 zeroes, that is, a 1 followed by a googol zeroes. In 1920, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term "googol", which is 10, then proposed the further term "googolplex" to be "one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired". Kasner decided to adopt a more formal definition because "different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have Carnera a better mathematician than Dr. Einstein, simply because he had more endurance
Computer number format we are familiar with floating-point numbers of the form (scientific notation): or, more compactly: which means "1.1030402 times 1 followed by 5 zeroes". We have a certain numeric value (1.1030402) known as a "significand", multiplied by a power of 10 (E5, meaning 10 or 100,000), known as an "exponent". If we have a negative exponent, that means the number is multiplied by a 1 that many places to the right of the decimal point. For example: The advantage of this scheme is that by using the exponent we can get a much wider range of numbers, even if the number