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...ordinary life, imaginary numbers of a somewhat different kind seem to have become even more useful. From solemn public officials and eager corporations, from newspapers, television (and even, some dare say, from newsmagazines) comes a googol of seemingly definitive and unarguable statistics. They tell us, with an exactitude that appears magical, the number of heroin addicts in New York and the population of the world. By simulating reality, they assure us that facts are facts, and that life can be understood, put in order, perhaps even mastered...
...that a googol is "the mathematical term for 1 plus 100 zeros" [TIME, July 6] is to be as erroneous as the third-grade arithmetician who decides that 2 plus 2 is 22 . . . A googol is the number which may be expressed...
Written out, this is 1 followed by 100 zeros . . . And a googolplex is a googol to the googol power...
...TIME'S googol specialist, 100 zeros...
...full-page ads, newspapers and magazines often trumpet their conflicting circulation claims in ways that bewilder readers but apparently impress ad agencies. Last week the Sunday supplement Parade (circ. 5,115,300) spoofed the whole practice with a circulation brochure to prove that it is headed unmistakably toward the "googol" (i.e., mathematical term for 1 plus 100 zeros). The present trend, says Parade "is assuredly toward the googol," since their new claimed readership is over one billion. Method of figuring it out: "Start with Parade's documented total of regular weekly readers (12,892,000), multiply...