Tim Forster wrote:
>
> Kerry,
>
> Almost but not quite correct.
> A googol is 10 to the 10th power. and a googolplex is 10 to the 10th power
> raised to the 100th power !
Wrong on the googol, right on the googolplex
googol = power(10, 100)
googolPlex = power(10, googol)
http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/cyc/g/googol.htm
http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/Tools/Googool.html
http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/Tools/GetAGoogol.html
in D7.02:
googol = power(10, 100)
googolPlex = power(10, googol)
this is amusing:
put googolplex
-- INF
but this is more amusing:
put googolplex = googolplex
-- 0
put googolplex - googolplex
-- NAN
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