Googol vs Gogol - What's the difference?
googol | gogol |
(cardinal) The number 10100, written as 1 followed by 100 zeros.
*1979 , (Steven Pinker), "Formal models of language learning", Language, Cognition, and Human Nature :
*:For example, in considering all the finite state grammars that use seven terminal symbols and seven auxiliary symbols (states), [...] he must test over a googol (10^100) candidates.
* 1980 , , chapter IX
As a numeral googol
is the number 10100, written as 1 followed by 100 zeros.As a proper noun Gogol is
a Russian and Ukrainian surname.As a noun gogol is
misspelling of lang=en.googol
English
(wikipedia googol)Numeral
(en noun)- If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10128 particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.