You might know that a googol—the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes—is a very large number indeed. You might even know that a googolplex—a 1 followed by a googol of zeros—is an even bigger number. But ...

Let your youngsters take a break from reading and writing and send them to “Googol U.” at the Discovery Center of Science & Technology, 511 E. 3rd St., Bethlehem, to study Googology. Googol U., an ...

CARL BIALIK ON THE WORD LINK BETWEEN A MASSIVE NUMBER AND THE INTERNET. The name of this year's hottest IPO, Google Inc, can be traced back to a walk in the woods just after World War I, when a boy ...

What is the largest number you can imagine? I’m sure more than one reader will paraphrase Han Solo, thinking they can imagine a lot. But whatever the number they say, it surely doesn’t even come close ...