Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "Googol and Googolplex - Numberphile" video.

  1. It's 1 with a googol of zeros behind it. It is 10 billion to the power of 100. Since it's exponential growth, you pass 1000 zeros after just 10 billion to the power of 10, and you'd have 90 more iterations to go. It's like the powers of two: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16,384, 32768, 65536, 131072. That's just 17 iterations of raising the power by 2 each time. Now try to imagine 100 iterations of raising the power of 10 billion each time.
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