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.
