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Maybe some of you know this already

A google is a fantastic number; it is a number followed by 100 zeros.

So when I say you got a google girlfriends, it means you have 10^100 girlfriends. (Aint logic)

Now we know why the name Google for the famous search engine.










   Sat Mar 10, 2007    Reply         

The word you're referring to is googol (not google). Read more about the word http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Agoogol

Another word associated with googol is GOOGOLPLEX. 10^googol or 10^(10^100)

   Sat Mar 10, 2007    Reply         

Yea, Googol, is 1 followed by a hundred zeroes, and a googolplex is 1 follows by a googol of zeroes. I heard that Google was named so because the founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to be Googleaires, which is pretty unrealistic, they are billionaires though, which is a pretty good start.

   Sun May 6, 2007    Reply         


Kinda made me angry seeing that they wanted to be Googleaires and still became billionaires. I'm not sure why it bugs me other than it seems kinda greedy. Doesn't google have slides at work? Or was that a different company that made work fun?

   Wed Aug 1, 2007    Reply         

QUOTE (zachwyler)

Yea, Googol, is 1 followed by a hundred zeroes, and a googolplex is 1 follows by a googol of zeroes. I heard that Google was named so because the founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to be Googleaires, which is pretty unrealistic, they are billionaires though, which is a pretty good start.
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I was at a bookstore and I found a book that had the Google logo on it. So I picked it up and read a few pages. If I recall, 'Google' is actually some what of a typo. The domain googol was already in use at the time so they decided on Google. :P






   Sun Aug 5, 2007    Reply         

QUOTE (deefables)

I was at a bookstore and I found a book that had the Google logo on it. So I picked it up and read a few pages. If I recall, 'Google' is actually some what of a typo. The domain googol was already in use at the time so they decided on Google. :P
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That's very strange- I always considered it to be named Google because of the number, not because of how rich they wanted to be; but because that's how many results they would like to have. Seems the mispelling theory is the true one, according to Wikipedia..

   Sun Aug 5, 2007    Reply         


Ahhh back to math... Eww don't make my headache start again :P. I know the url googol.com used to be a website with nothing except the googol number printed on it. I don't quite know what happened to it.... It was quite funny.

   Sun Aug 5, 2007    Reply         

When I saw the topic title, I was like :P . Then I started to question if Google had anything to do with it :P good thing Buff clarified it. I think the last time I heard about this number was way back in grade school. My [math] teacher was giving us some trivia on... guess what? numbers :P

   Sun Aug 5, 2007    Reply         

Google was founded by two people??
Now they must be employing thousands of people in every country!!! That sure is a success story!!!!
The founders themselves might not have imagined they would reach these hights today. Google has most of it's services free and earns only from advertisers. Yet they are the best!!!

   Thu Aug 9, 2007    Reply         

On reading the topic I thought that i've seen that word somewhere in the maths part but can't really recall if that was the corrent spelling. Well the second post clears the work spelling out. I kind of learned about that wayyyyy back when i was in school. Funny google being realted to the number thingy. By the way what is the realy story behind the name? anyone knows about it?

   Mon Sep 3, 2007    Reply         

Yea, a googol is big, but it's nothing compared to g64 (a.k.a. Graham's number). Imagine taking the number 3, then cubing it, then cubing the result, then cubing that result, and so on and so forth until you have done a total of 64 cubing operations. Now that is a fantastic number.

   Sun Sep 23, 2007    Reply         

I actually heard that a Googolplex was the largest named number, but obviously not haha.

So, Graham's number then, would be equivalent to 3 to the power of 64?

Cool.

=D

   Thu Sep 27, 2007    Reply         

QUOTE (RAWRzilla)

So, Graham's number then, would be equivalent to 3 to the power of 64?

Not exactly. It's 3 to the power of 3. Then that number to the power of 3, then that result to the power of 3, and so and and so forth until you have raised a number to the third power 64 times.

In other words:
33 = 9
93= 729
7293 = 387420489
3874204893 = 5.8149737 × 1025
(5.8149737 × 1025)3 = 1.9662705 × 1077
Keep going and going, until you have done raised a number to the 3rd power for the 64th time.

   Fri Sep 28, 2007    Reply         

I guess you learn a new thing every day. :P

I still dont fully understand what it means but it's nice to know where google got the name from.

   Tue Oct 16, 2007    Reply         

I have two books on Google here. It happened to say that a friend of theirs who rented them a Garage at Menlo Park where they started Google, came up with Google. I am, however, not sure with my memory status, i may have given the wrong details. By the way, Grahams' theory is superb. 2 to the power of 2 = 2Cube. I learnt that in mathematics class when i was young? It's syllabus requirement.

By the way, Google is created, by Larry and Sergey under a purpose and motto which is to get all the information in the world into one place and their motto/logo/slogan is: "Do Not Be Evil". I guess that has to do with them buying over small startups. (Bully, i had dare shout at em')

   Fri Oct 19, 2007    Reply         

Always nice to know.

Google are really world-dominant you ask me. Perhaps they could CHANGE the currency and say "Hell yeah, we gotz teh googol's!" :P

   Fri Oct 19, 2007    Reply         

Naw, they won't, seriously. Google are a bunch of uber geeks who pawnt nothing else but the World of Geekcraft. (-In specific, search technology and buying over new startups)

   Sat Oct 20, 2007    Reply         

I recently read something about this, The creaters of google misspelled googol and thats how they came up with their name :P Google's main building is called the googleplex. To a recently earlier post who I cant remember did it, Yes it is google who has slides in their building. Accompanied by a gym, spa and a pool. Every year google takes its employees on a ski trip.

DREAM JOB FTW

   Sat Oct 27, 2007    Reply         

QUOTE (Nero)


Maybe some of you know this already

A google is a fantastic number; it is a number followed by 100 zeros.

So when I say you got a google girlfriends, it means you have 10^100 girlfriends. (Aint logic)

Now we know why the name Google for the famous search engine.
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Why you consider it is fantastic? It could exist, every single number, written by digit, followed by another digits, is a number, which could exist.

:rolleyes: You could only not call it with a name ;)

   Mon Oct 29, 2007    Reply         

No no.. It's a Google.. Googol is/was just another way of spelling it..

   Wed Dec 9, 2009    Reply         

i bet google is about a googol billion bucks richer that me :P use BING , its better , faster and safer! BTW why is there like 5 people explaining why google is actually speed googol ? i mean come on , it only takes one person!

   Thu Dec 24, 2009    Reply         

Large numbersThe Definition Of Google Number [aka Googol]

Just watched a programme on TV about infinity which touched on large numbers.

Yes Google

Yes Googleplex

But what about Graem. A Gream (calculated by Matthew Gream) is a number so large that we don't even know what or how many digits it has other than the last one is 7.  Something to do with sending internet information.

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   Thu Feb 11, 2010    Reply         

33 = 9
93= 729
7293 = 387420489
3874204893 = 5.8149737 × 1025
(5.8149737 × 1025)3 = 1.9662705 × 1077
Keep going and going, until you have done raised a number to the 3rd power for the 64th time.



The truth is that you are both saying the same. It is actually 3 to the power of 64. If you check what you are explaining, confirms this.

3 ^3 = 9 (3x3x3)
9 ^3 = 729 (which is 3 ^6, or 3x3x3x3x3x3)
729 ^3 = 387420489 (which is 3 ^9, or 3x3x3x3x3x3x3x3x3)

You will just have to continue adding up the exp number.

   Mon Aug 9, 2010    Reply         

QUOTE (Jerry)


33 = 9
93= 729
7293 = 387420489
3874204893 = 5.8149737 × 1025
(5.8149737 × 1025)3 = 1.9662705 × 1077
Keep going and going, until you have done raised a number to the 3rd power for the 64th time.



The truth is that you are both saying the same. It is actually 3 to the power of 64. If you check what you are explaining, confirms this.

3 ^3 = 9 (3x3x3)
9 ^3 = 729 (which is 3 ^6, or 3x3x3x3x3x3)
729 ^3 = 387420489 (which is 3 ^9, or 3x3x3x3x3x3x3x3x3)

You will just have to continue adding up the exp number.

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Actually, you are all wrong. 3 ^2 = 9. 3 ^3 = 27.

So...

3 ^3 = 27
27 ^3 = 19,683
19,683 ^3 = 7.62559748 × 10^12

At this point we have only cubed the number 3 times and already we have 12 preceding zeros. 61 more times would be huge. Much larger than a google/googol.

FYI: 3 ^64 = 3.43368382 × 10^30

   Tue Sep 27, 2011    Reply         

FYI: Graham's number

3^3 = 27 = 3 ^(3^1) -> First Iterration
27^3 = 19683 = 3^3^3 = 3^9 = 3^(3^2) -> Second Iterration
19683^3 = 7625597484987 = 3^3^3^3 = 3^9^3 = 3^27 = 3^(3^3) -> Third Iterration

So, the number you are looking for is the 64th Iterration, which is:

3^(3^64) = a lot

But, I am not so sure this is in fact Graham's number, because his number is defined using Knuth's up-arrow notation.

   Wed Jan 25, 2012    Reply         

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