Writing the Unwritable: How to Handle Extremely Large Numbers
Numbers so large that they would fill the observable universe with digits are hard to grasp and harder to write. A googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) already exceeds the number of particles in the known cosmos. A googolplex, which is 10 to the power of a googol, is so big that there is not enough space in the universe to write it in standard decimal form. This article explains the practical methods used to write and think about such numbers without listing every digit. The