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Googolplex vs. Googol — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Googolplex and Googol

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Googolplex

A googolplex is the number 10googol, or equivalently, 10(10100). Written out in ordinary decimal notation, it is 1 followed by 10100 zeroes; that is, a 1 followed by a googol zeroes.

Googol

A googol is the large number 10100. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes: 10,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000.

Googolplex

The number 10 raised to the power googol, written out as the numeral 1 followed by 10100 zeros.

Googol

The number 10 raised to the power 100 (10100), written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Googolplex

The number 10^{10^{100}} or 10^\text{googol}, ten to the power of a googol.

Googol

The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sedecilliard (long scale).
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Googolplex

(figuratively) A countable number

Googol

A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)

Googolplex

An infinitesimally small portion of land, defined for legal purposes.

Googolplex

A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol)

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