Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred);
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
googol
n 1: a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros
(ten raised to the power of a hundred)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
googol
The number represented in base-ten by a one with
a hundred zeroes after it.
According to Webster's Dictionary, the name was coined in 1938
by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of American
mathematician, Edward Kasner.
See also googolplex.
(2001-03-29)