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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
googol
 
SYLLABICATION:goo·gol
PRONUNCIATION:  ggôl
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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