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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby Buff_ » May 2nd, 2010, 1:05 am

A googol is still much bigger than the ones you've said, as is a googolplex.

Fun fact: If you wrote a googolplex with every number a centimetre between them in a straight line, you would be out of this galaxy before you finished it.
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby Worst_master » May 2nd, 2010, 2:29 am

Number is limitless, but People can not make a lot of english word of this.
So you can said it 999,999,999,999......
I know the chinese of the biggest nubmer, but I don't know english.....
Go to wikipedia or it will help you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggest_number
I know googol= 10100 (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby StarF » May 2nd, 2010, 9:11 am

worst_master wrote:Number is limitless, but People can not make a lot of english word of this.
So you can said it 999,999,999,999......
I know the chinese of the biggest nubmer, but I don't know english.....
Go to wikipedia or it will help you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggest_number
I know googol= 10100 (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

You officially just broke my brain.
I'm Pretty sure I should put something here...
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby Worst_master » May 2nd, 2010, 5:59 pm

star-fawful wrote:
worst_master wrote:Number is limitless, but People can not make a lot of english word of this.
So you can said it 999,999,999,999......
I know the chinese of the biggest nubmer, but I don't know english.....
Go to wikipedia or it will help you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggest_number
I know googol= 10^100 (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

You officially just broke my brain.

...oh I forget it must be 10^100
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby YoshiKid54 » May 3rd, 2010, 12:39 am

We shouldn't know these numbers. We're just teens right? :P
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby Avo » May 3rd, 2010, 3:31 pm

YoshiKid69 wrote:We shouldn't know these numbers. We're just teens right? :P


Anybody at any age can know anything..................>_>

Infinity, that's high numbers can go, infinity never ends. Ergo (Did I just use that word?) numbers never end.
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby BrawlerEX » May 3rd, 2010, 4:12 pm

Numba's nevar end. Here's all I know :D
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 yotta Y Septillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 zetta Z Sextillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 exa E Quintillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 peta P Quadrillion
1,000,000,000,000 tera T Trillion
1,000,000,000 giga G Billion
1,000,000 mega M Million
1,000 kilo K Thousand
100 hecto H Hundred
10 deca da Ten

Well... I know more I just don't want to put it all down.

(Example:1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000=Number Yotta=Name Y=Symbol Septillion=Description)
Oh wait here is one more Googol:1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Googleplex:I really don't want to put all the 0's
Zoogle:???? I don't know honestly. Almost nobody knows.
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby Avo » May 3rd, 2010, 5:09 pm

brawlere wrote:Sextillion


I'm sorry, what? And all those numbers would an entire lifetime to count up to.
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby YoshiKid54 » May 4th, 2010, 4:56 am

Avolerators wrote:
brawlere wrote:Sextillion
Avolerators wrote:
brawlere wrote:Sextillion


I'm sorry, what? And all those numbers would an entire lifetime to count up to.

Avo, that term is actually real.
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Re: How high can numbers go?

Postby Avo » May 4th, 2010, 6:40 am

YoshiKid69 wrote:
Avolerators wrote:
brawlere wrote:Sextillion
Avolerators wrote:
brawlere wrote:Sextillion


I'm sorry, what? And all those numbers would an entire lifetime to count up to.

Avo, that term is actually real.


I never said it wasn't real, I just never heard it before......
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