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Googolplex Written Out Wolfgang H. Nitsche volume 1 Googolplex Written Out volume 1 of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 page 1 Author: Nitsche, Wolfgang H. Title: Googolplex Written Out Date of publication: August 2013 Publisher: Nitsche Place of publication: Stanford, California, U.S.A. Web: http://www.GoogolplexWrittenOut.com ISBN 978-0-9900072-0-3 (multivolume set of PDF e-books) ISBN 978-0-9900072-1-0 (multivolume set of soft-cover books) (These ISBNs refer to the entire multivolume set of books. No ISBNs have been assigned to all the individual volumes, since the total number of volumes exceeds the number of available ISBNs by many orders of magnitude.) 1.0.1 Googolplex Written Out volume 1 of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 page 2 Googolplex Written Out Wolfgang H. Nitsche Stanford University volume 1 Googolplex Written Out volume 1 of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 page 3 Foreword In 1940, the mathematician Edward Kasner published the book "Mathematics and the Imagination", in which he popularized the words googol and googolplex which his nephew suggested as names for big numbers. The number googol has been defined as 1 followed by a hundred zeros: googol = 10 100 = 10000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000. The much larger number googolplex has been defined as 1 followed by a googol zeros. While this number can easily be written as 100 googolplex = 10 googol = 10 (10 ) using the exponential notation, it has often been claimed that the number googolplex is so large that it can never be written out in full. However in this "Googolplex Written Out" multivolume set of books, I am doing just that. It consists of 10000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000 volumes, and each volume contains 1000000 zeros of the number googolplex. The first volume also contains the initial digit one with which googolplex starts. Wolfgang H. Nitsche August 2013 www.GoogolplexWrittenOut.

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