英语词汇googol的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

googol; googolplex. A nine-year-old child invented googol—a word for the number one followed by 100 zeroes, or 10 to the 100th power (10100), which is frequently used in mathematics. Distinguished American mathematician Dr. Edward Kasner asked his nephew to make up a name for the big number and the boy replied googol. Possibly the word was suggested by childish sounds like goo, coo, etc., or possibly the comic strip Barney Google had something to do with it. A googol can also be called 10 duotrigintillion, if you want to go to the trouble. Dr. Kasner, who died in 1955, is also, along with his nephew, responsible for the term googolplex. This is 10 raised to the power of a googol, or one followed by a googol zeroes. Using googolplex as shorthand for this finite number certainly saves a lot of time, for as Kasner wrote, “there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae, and putting down zeroes every inch of the way.”

词汇	googol
词源	googol; googolplex. A nine-year-old child invented googol—a word for the number one followed by 100 zeroes, or 10 to the 100th power (10100), which is frequently used in mathematics. Distinguished American mathematician Dr. Edward Kasner asked his nephew to make up a name for the big number and the boy replied googol. Possibly the word was suggested by childish sounds like goo, coo, etc., or possibly the comic strip Barney Google had something to do with it. A googol can also be called 10 duotrigintillion, if you want to go to the trouble. Dr. Kasner, who died in 1955, is also, along with his nephew, responsible for the term googolplex. This is 10 raised to the power of a googol, or one followed by a googol zeroes. Using googolplex as shorthand for this finite number certainly saves a lot of time, for as Kasner wrote, “there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae, and putting down zeroes every inch of the way.”
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