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Googol vs Googolfold - What's the difference?

googol | googolfold |

As a numeral googol

is (cardinal) the number 10100, written as 1 followed by 100 zeros.

As an adjective googolfold is

by a multiple of one googol; by a googol times as much or as many.

As an adverb googolfold is

by a factor of one googol.

googol

English

(wikipedia googol)

Numeral

(en noun)
  • (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
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * Google * googolplex

    googolfold

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • By a multiple of one googol; by a googol times as much or as many.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • By a factor of one googol.
  • * {{cite newsgroup
    • , title = Re: Animefantastique Ends Publication , author = chance wolf , date = November 6, 1999 , newsgroup = rec.arts.animation , id = , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.animation/xLlB2GxY9bQ/ZWgJ2ICu2AAJ , accessdate = 2014-12-10 }}
    There are people out there cornerning the market on these things hoping ol' Ty will retire them and somehow disappear from the face of the earth - thereby increasing their value a googolfold .
  • * {{cite newsgroup
    • , title = Re: Interesting non-FTL interstellar settings? , author = Robert Shaw , date = January 19, 2004 , newsgroup = rec.arts.sf.written , id = , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.written/bJQj6ggbbOE/lSNXuY4rg6oJ , accessdate = 2014-12-10 }}
    To get the intensity of the light travelling the loop we must combine the contributions from photons circling it once, twice, thrice, fourfold, ... , a googolfold ...
  • * 2009 , Joel Marks, Ought Implies Kant , page 39:
    • The situation is about to get a googol-
    fold     worse.

    Related terms

    * hundredfold * thousandfold * millionfold * billionfold * trillionfold * quadrillionfold * quintillionfold * sextillionfold * septillionfold * octillionfold * googolplexfold