Kerry Thompson wrote:
> The largest number mathematicians usually deal with is a googolplex
> (really). That's 10 to the 100th power, and as Colin noted, greater than
> the total number of elementary particles in the known universe (about 10 ^ 80).
>
> Let's get really OT--the name googolplex was invented by the American
> mathematician Edward Kasner's 9-year-old nephew. Kasner asked the boy to
> invent a name for a very large number, bigger than anything that can be put
> into words. His nephew called it a "googol," and mathematicians have been
> calling it googolplex ever since.
Nit picking:
If I recall correctly
googol = power(10, 100)
googolPlex = power(10, googol)
which gives us:
put googol
-- 1.00000000000000e100
put googolplex
-- INF
Hmmm...
put power(10,1000)
-- INF
put googolplex = power(10,1000)
-- 0
put googolplex + power(10,1000)
-- INF
put googolplex - power(10,1000)
-- NAN
Hmmm...
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