Thursday, January 11, 2007

Highest set of numbers with a name?? 1/11/06 WE HAVE AN ANSWER!

We all know that numbers go on for infinity, right? So, what is the highest set of numbers that have been named?

I have been searching and searching the internet for the answer to this question. I don't know if I'm not putting in the right search words or what but I can't get anything to come up that even remotely has an answer.
Anyone have any idea?

UPDATE: (1/11/06)
According to the good guys at Askville.com (which is a pretty awesome site, I might add), the largest number in the traditional sense is called a centillion. BUT, there is a higher set of numbers that are way out of our reach and almost beyond my comprehension.
It's called a googolplex. Keep up with me here.........a googol is a 1 with 100 numbers after it. Explicitly as written, 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
A googolplex is a 1 with a googol of 0's after it. (I won't even attempt to write that out.)
So there you have it.

million
billion
trillion
quadrillion
quintillion
sextillion
septillion
octillion
nonillion
decillion
undecillion
duodecillion
tredecillion
quattuordecillion
quindecillion
sexdecillion
septendecillion
octodecillion
novemdecillion
vigintillion
centillion
googol
googolplex

Don't ask me why I wanted to know all this because I have no idea myself. It's just one of the goofy things I think about at night in bed when I can't fall asleep fast.

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