Like zillion and jillion, gazillion is a made-up word meaning “a whole bunch” that’s modeled after actual numbers such as million and billion

ABSOLUTE INFINITY !!! This is the smallest ordinal number after “omega” Informally we can think of this as infinity plus one In order to say omega and one is “larger” than “omega” we define largeness to mean that one ordinal is larger than another if the smaller ordinal is included in the set of the larger

Infinity can never be smaller or larger then infinity Infinity is not a number It is a size, a manyness Georg Cantor proved that there are 2 and only 2 sizes of infinity

Googol It is a large number, unimaginably large It is easy to write in exponential format: 10100, an extremely compact method, to easily represent the largest numbers (and also the smallest numbers)

288 zeros

For example, the number 000 can be called 5 x 1020 in scientific notation since there are 20 zeros behind the 5Names for large numbers

Numeral octillion (US, modern Britain and Australia, short scale) A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 1027 (dated Britain and Australia, long scale) A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 1048

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192 zeros

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