English Dictionary

googolplex

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡuːɡəlplɛks/

数詞

比喩的用法 アメリカ英語 非標準 稀用

The number 10^(10¹⁰⁰) or 10^( text )googol, ten to the power of a googol. / (figuratively) A countable number

日本語の意味

10の10の100乗、すなわちグーゴルのべき乗、グーゴルという数の乗数として定義される非常に大きな数 / 比喩的に、非常に大きなまたは数え切れないほどの数を意味する場合がある

A googolplex cannot be physically written out in full because it contains more digits than there are particles in the observable universe.

10^(10^100)は、その桁数が観測可能な宇宙に存在する粒子の数より多いため、物理的に完全に書き表すことはできません。

意味（1）

The number 10^(10¹⁰⁰) or 10^( text )googol, ten to the power of a googol.

The name googol was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name. At the same time that he suggested googol he gave a name for a still larger number: Googolplex. A googolplex is much larger than a googol, but is still finite, as the inventor of the name was quick to point out. It was first suggested that a googolplex should be 1, followed by writing zeros until you got tired. This is a description of what would happen if one actually tried to write a googolplex, but different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have [Primo] Carnera a better mathematician than Dr. [Albert] Einstein, simply because he had more endurance. The googolplex then, is a specific finite number, with so many zeros after the 1 that the number of zeros is a googol. A googolplex is much bigger than a googol, much bigger than a googol times a googol. A googol times a googol would be 1 with 200 zeros, whereas a googolplex is one with a googol of zeros. You will get some idea of the size of this very large but finite number from the fact that there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae and putting down zeros every inch of the way.

意味（2）

(figuratively) A countable number

Inflationary theory suggests that the entirety of space is vastly larger. Quantum theory suggests that there are many different copies of space of the same basic kind as ours (same laws of physics). String theory further suggests that there may be many different kinds of space. This whole collection of googolplexes of galaxies within each of googolplexes of different spaces within each of googols of kinds of space makes up an enormously vast universe or multiverse.

意味（3）

(US, real estate, nonstandard, rare) An infinitesimally small portion of land, defined for legal purposes.

To a mathematician, a googolplex is the figure 1 followed by a googol of zeroes (a googol being the figure 1 followed by a mere 100 zeroes). To a real-estate man, it's one infinitesimal parcel of a plot of land.

googolplexes （ plural ）