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Here is the link for Google.com on 1e100.net http://gv-in-f103.1e100.net
No wonder a domain that was setup just months ago has become one of the Top 100 sites in the world.
What is google planning to do with this domain? Is it to be used with the new Google Wave?
Thanks to http://www.1e100.co.in and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol for posting the original articles.
Googolplex
A googolplex is the number one followed by one googol zeroes, or ten raised to the power of one googol:
- 10googol = 10(10100).
In the documentary Cosmos, astronomer and broadcast personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in base-10 numerals (i.e., 1 followed by a googol of zeroes) would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe provides.
A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros in decimal representation. The term was coined in 1938[1] by Milton Sirotta (1929–1980), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, when he was nine years old. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940). A googol is of the same order of magnitude as the factorial of 70 (70! being approximately 1.198 googol, or 10 to the power 100.0784). In binary it would take up 333 bits. A googol has no particular significance in mathematics, but is useful when comparing with other very large quantities such as the number of subatomic particles in the visible universe or the number of possible chess games. Edward Kasner used it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity, and in this role it is sometimes used in teaching mathematics. Other names for googol include ten duotrigintillion on the short scale, ten thousand sexdecillion on the long scale, or ten sexdecilliard on the Peletier long scale. |
Googol and comparable large numbers
Fewer than a googol Planck times have elapsed since the Big Bang (the current figure stands at around 8×1060 Planck times). On the other hand, the volume of the observable universe is about 9×10185 cubic Planck lengths.
A googol is greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, which has been variously estimated from 1079 up to 1081.[2][3]
From the previous figures it can be seen that a list of positions of every particle at every possible instant of time, at the maximum possible accuracy, would contain well over a googol entries (of the order of 10325), but still far less than a googolplex.
Avogadro's number, 6.02214179 × 1023, is exactly the number of 12C atoms in 12 grams (0.012 kg) of unbound 12C in its ground state. It is perhaps the most widely known large number from chemistry and physics. Avogadro's number is less than the fourth root of a googol.
Black holes are presumed to evaporate because they faintly give off Hawking radiation; if so, a supermassive black hole would take about a googol years to evaporate.[4]
A googol is roughly equal to the factorial of 70; this number is 1.1987... × 10100. It follows that there are more than a googol ways to arrange 70 objects into a sequence.
The odds are approximately one in a googol that 333 coins tossed in the air will all land heads up (2333 = 1.7498... × 10100) or that a person repeatedly throwing a pair of dice will roll double sixes 65 consecutive times. (3665 = 1.4443 x 10101)
It would take approximately 11,256 googbibytes (1024100) to store every possible product of two primes in the RSA-1024 bit keyspace.[5]
The Shannon number, 10120, a rough lower bound on the number of possible chess games, is more than a googol.
A googol is considerably less than the number described in the ancient Archimedes' story of The Sand Reckoner, namely
But it should be noted that the system invented by Archimedes is reminiscent of a positional numeral system with base 108, so that Archimedes' number could be written
![\left[\left((10)^{(10)}\right)^{10}\right]_{10^8}=\left[10^{100}\right]_{10^8},](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vP2aQhG4SHvowhXUDI5GiADcrmre5bmAjLR_7wbo8BNI0AEGslhI-WrUOeiQsYBvhUY_MwfogE89l9RR6yvYVdB5OoTAxsCUuVMmdL2DFux7S14ArY7b8ltis-wWA2i0Rt86bS0KWqJ_F03g_G=s0-d)
that is, the analogue of the googol in base 108.
Here is a visual representation: 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
with commas: 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
One should also note that googol is a perfect 100th power.
From Googol to Google: The Story Behind Google.
Some people think that earth was formed with a big bang, But some thing It came up with a whimper. Thats the story of Google like. A small search engine which has the hold on globe today. As the name says Googol (the number 1 followed by 100 zeros), exactly where it is today. And where they are is on top of the world. As the Reports say Google as a company is now the top search engine company in the world, and is worth more than both Chevrolet and Ford combined. An accomplishment indeed.
Company began as a bit of a science project for two college students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Google started in the basement of Stanford University where the two men met and came up with a way to better channel the tidal forces of the Internet into useable data. They developed a series of Algorithms that were designed to filter the information in a web page search and rank it in order of relevance. After they had developed their test web page and named it Google, they installed into the University computers there and asked some friends to use it and see how it worked for them. That is where the Google was born.
They soon ran out of computer pace and were forced to relocate their project. That relocation happened when the two men moved out of Stanford University and into their world-wide headquarters (an old garage of a friend) so they could build and maintain their own computers. When the internet crash happened in nineties named as Dotcom Crash ,Google survived. Not only it survived but that was the time when it hired some of the very great minds in the industry.
he main motto of Google is do no evil. And it has proved it at all phases of development. It has taken the user as priority and never hidden anything from them. Google only advertises through its own site and clearly marks its advertising so people will not be confused by it . By this, Google means that they will always strive to be upfront and honest with their users about everything thing that they are doing. No trick marketing, no flashy gimmicks. Just truth in advertising. Google ads are always placed in the same spot so you can find them. They are never mixed into searches, because that would play into the mindset that Google could be bought off in order to achieve favorable rankings.
Instead, when a Google search is typed in, all of the relevant web sites are listed according to the Google ranking system. Beside them, listed to the right, are a ranked set of advertising according to the relevance of the search.
This type of advertising and honesty, one person at a time, has proven to be highly successful for Google, and a highly profitable venture that literally is only limited by the size of the internet and by companies willing to invest in their program. Google and the companies associated with it have grown to heights. Brin and Page are worth over $6 Billion each .
Can't wait to see what is the next big bang of the internet. By the looks of it, Google just might have something to do with it....