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Originally Posted by CraigS
"A googolplex is the number 10googol, i.e. 10e10e100, which can also be written as the number 1 followed by a googol zeros (i.e. 10e100 zeros)."
Wikipedia
Pretty big !!
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Archimedes who is considered the third greatest mathematician of all time after Gauss and Newton came up with the number 1 followed by 80 thousand billion zeros. Not bad for an age when a number larger than 3 was considered enormous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Reckoner
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Steven