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goo·gol

gôl

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NOUN:

The number 10 raised to the power 100 (10¹⁰⁰), written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

ETYMOLOGY:
Coined at the age of nine by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner (1878-1955), American mathematician

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