[Bill Rice]

As I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to 100th power.

I remember my physics teacher having us figure out how many seconds it had been to get us up to 1983, from when they started counting. This was only a small fraction of a googleplex.

[Always Right]

As I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to 100th power.

10 raised to the 100th power is a 1 with a hundred zeros, or otherwise simply a google. A googleplex is 10 raised to the google power, or in short, 10 to the 10th to the 100th.

[reg45]

As I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to 100th power.

I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to the 10th power raised to the 10th power. Your definition would only be 10 raised to the 10th power raised to the 2nd power.

Nyah! Nyah! My googleplex is bigger than your googleplex!!!

8-)

[samtheman]

As I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to 100th power. I remember my physics teacher having us figure out how many seconds it had been to get us up to 1983, from when they started counting. This was only a small fraction of a googleplex.

A googleplex is much larger than the total number of all particles in the visible universe (as calculated by current astronomers). That number is on the order of 10 to the 50th power, which is a tiny tiny fraction of 10 to the 100th power.