A googol is just 10 duotrigintillions (and what's half a googol?)

Editor's note: "Googol" is a huge number: 10 to the power of 100. The guys at Google named themselves after this large (and basically theoretical) number. Frederick has been learning about large numbers and it has created a game in this house "What's XX% of a googol?" Not long into the game this discussion was overheard in our kitchen:

"Dada, What's one-half of a googol?"

"A Yahoo?"

"No Sander, that's one-tenth of a googol."

Frederick presents some results below with the help of this website on names of very large numbers. Before Frederick gets into calculations, he has a concern with the structure of the number naming system.

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Why does a googol have 100 zeros? Why doesn't a googol have 102 zeros.

A googol is just 10 duotrigintillions.

[End commentary.]

1/2 of a googol is 100 quindecillion.

1/4 of a googol is 10 septillion.

1/5 of a googol is 100 quintillion.

1/10 of a googol is 10 billion.

60% of a googol is one novemdecillion.

35% of a googol is 100 decillion.

70% of a googol is 10 duovigintillion.

77% of a googol is 100 quattuorvigintillion.

Comments

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Oh now I have a headache. I won't be able to sleep now. Googols are going to haunt me now. lol

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