matt comments on Parapsychology: the control group for science - Less Wrong

62 Post author: AllanCrossman 05 December 2009 10:50PM

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Comment author: matt 07 December 2009 10:53:46PM 2 points [-]

googleplex = Google Inc's HQ

googolplex = 10^(10^100)

Comment author: Blueberry 08 December 2009 12:16:43AM -2 points [-]

It's truly sad now how people are less familiar with the original spelling and meaning of a googol. Now the first thing we think of is the search engine, instead of 10^100.

Comment author: gwern 08 December 2009 06:52:19PM 5 points [-]

Is that really so sad? googol was named in jest and I do not think I have ever seen it seriously needed for anything; Google on the other hand...