Googol

For the company's search engine that possibly led you here, see Google.

A googol is an integer that has 100 0s and is equal to 10100. The term was coined in 1938 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, who is the nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner

Mathematical properties

 * A googol is an even number.
 * A googol is a power of 10, a composite number and an abundant number.
 * A googol is a Harshad number and a happy number.
 * A googol is equal to $$10^{10^2}$$

Googol and Google
Google is derived from Googol, as a googol means a very huge number. It may be a misspelling, or it is intentionally used.

Google is designed to store a lot of things, so a googol is used.