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Have you ever tried to think of the absolute biggest number in the world? A million? A billion? What about a number so gigantic that it is bigger than all the atoms in the entire known universe? Welcome to the mind-boggling world of the googol! In this incredible episode of Maths is Not Boring, Mira and Finn explore a giant number that almost breaks your brain. Discover how a mathematician named Edward Kasner wanted to understand a one followed by exactly a hundred zeros. But what should he call it? He asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, who came up with the silliest name ever: a googol! You will also learn about an even bigger number called a googolplex, which is so huge you could never write it down even if you magically turned the entire universe into paper! Plus, find out how Milton’s funny made-up word eventually inspired the name of the most famous internet search engine on Earth. Get ready to stretch your imagination and discover why counting never, ever runs out of room!
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