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A Hippopotatomus A Hippopotatomus 1 April
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If "googol" was created today


Googol is equal to 10100 in exponentiation. The term was coined by Wikia user EKasner1920. The name comes from the prefix goo- and the suffix -gol.

John Bowser calls this number Gorblopulus. It is equal to ⁅10,100⁆ in Bowser's Expanding Array Function.

Sbaas Siabain calls this number unito-expon. It is equal to M1$*$100 in Hyper-M notation.

Wiki user Absolute7331 calls this number Estonian Corporation as part of the Ethereal Manta Ray. It is equal to 3`1002 in iconic array notation. However, iconic array notation is ill-defined and thus the equality is meaningless.


It was previously widely believed by this community that a googol is equal to 10010 but this is false. It is a very widely spread misinformation due to this idiotic wiki. However, exponentiation d…



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A Hippopotatomus A Hippopotatomus 7 February
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ExE lore

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A Hippopotatomus A Hippopotatomus 15 January
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How to reclaim the numbers wiki

With the recent surge in small (

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A Hippopotatomus A Hippopotatomus 5 January
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Kharms' googology

I learned a while ago from a comment by Январь Первомайский that the Russian absurdist poet Daniil Kharms invented a notation for large numbers in 1931 (well before Graham's number and only a few years after Ackermann's function). The source is here. I do not speak Russian, but I machine translated it to English, edited it to sound more natural, and converted it to wikitext. (n), [n] and represent n in a circle, square, and triangle respectively.


Like this:

h2, h3, h4, h5 etc.

We will represent the quantity:

(h3)(h3)(h3)(h3) where the number of exponents (h3) equals the base (h3):

hh3.

The meaning of these is clear:

hhhh7, hhhhhhh9

Or equivalently:

4h7, 7h9

Let's assume there are not 7 of these h's, as in the last case, but h8. Then we will represe…


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A Hippopotatomus A Hippopotatomus 16 December 2024
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New ULNL numbers

Sbiis Saibian has recently updated his ULNL as part of a general renovation plan. The ULNL is on hiatus as of December 2, so I went through the list and found the googolisms on there that are not on the wiki. I didn't include googolisms only mentioned in other entries or descriptive names (i.e. "one and a googol-minutia"). The smaller entries tend to be novel while the larger ones are outdated.

Note: not all of these deserve pages. This wiki already has enough (pseudo-)Saibianism bloat, and also doesn't need those small numbers. I count Saibian's names for My number is bigger! entries as googolisms because he gave them names, but they should just redirect to the MNIB page. Also, I'm pretty sure I made a few errors and I will not correct the…

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