Weedpacket wrote:Googol changed its name and became an Internet entrepeneur. 🙂
But seriously(?) a googol is num2name('1'.str_repeat('0',100)) = ten duotrigintillion
and a Googolplex is ten trilli-[-trecentitrigintitrilli- repeated 32 times]-trecentitrigintibillion
More seriously still, there is a more practical implementation further down the thread that only goes up to 999,999.
Well done!
But to fill in some details, I really believe the spelling problem with Googol, academic complaints notwithstanding, is that it is really a Google/Googleplex kind of spelling that is appropriate.
I say this because the impact that the comic strips of Barney Google, Snuffy Smith, and his dog, bullet at the time were a favorate of Kastner's nephews, Milton and Edwin, when they were asked about a word with a sound that had a lot of O's in it at that time in their lives.
And while some say that copyright restrictions mutated the phrase to Googol, I believe it was Kastners own intent to add another '0' to the word Google to accuentate his idea about extending the large number of things that were less than infinity.