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[delivi]

A Centillian is a number in which 1 is followed by 103 zeros.

A centillian is,

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10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Notice from BuffaloHELP:

A word description of what 103 zeros would have been sufficient. There's no need to type it out.

[husker]

That's cool, but do you think anyone will ever use it? Maybe to describe gas in the next 100 years lol. I would hate to write that out. What if you missed a 0?

[brautigam]

A googel is a 1 followed by 100 zeros:

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10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000

And a googelplex is a 1 followed by a googel zeros:

This will take up probable 20 miles of room if writted out on a line, just think about it, a 1 followed by a googel zeros

[Gyad]

Is there even a reason to make such a word as Centillian or Googleplex?

I don't see much point in making a number that has 103 zeros...

[pb-gnat]

This might be an interesting read for you all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

[msabas]

well i think it would make sense that if you had to use it use it as a fraction to represent it instead of having to write down all the zeros.

So for example if you wrote it it would be suach as 250 centillian = 250/103

[Sprnknwn]

I´m confused. I was never good at maths but what´s the point of this? I mean... if there is a name for a number which is a 1 followed by 103 zeros... should be another with 33 zeros, 8 zeros, 3426899 zeros? I suppose there must be a logical reason for 103 zeros. If not, it´s completely dumb.

Edited by Sprnknwn, 19 July 2006 - 12:56 PM.

[uiop]

It is completely and utterly impossible to write a googelplex. Even if all the known matter in the universe was converted into paper or disk space, there would not be enough matter to write down a googelplex!

[DarkPsycho]

uiop, on Jul 17 2006, 04:06 PM, said:

It is completely and utterly impossible to write a googelplex. Even if all the known matter in the universe was converted into paper or disk space, there would not be enough matter to write down a googelplex!

i don't know about that
i'm pretty sure it would be possible to write down a googelplex

[Plenoptic]

lol I think it is just a way to name them for any given reason. People who are interested in numbers will use it like those trying to find the largest prime number. I think it is also just to say that there are huge numbers. People will use it to describe a large quantity of something just to exagerate like a billion times or whatever. There are other uses but we generally won't need it.