Googolplex

Googolplex is a large number equal to 1010 100 = 10googol or one followed by a googol (10100) zeroes. Milton Sirotta defined it as "one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired;" Edward Kasner, unsatisfied by this vague definition, redefined it to its current value.

Contrary to popular belief, googolplex is neither the largest number nor the largest named number. For example, googolplex is easily beaten by other named numbers such as giggol.

Ten to the power of googolplex is called googolduplex (also called googolplexplex, googolplusplex, and googolplexian).

Etymology
The name of this number is derived from googol, but there is no logic to the definition otherwise. Googologists later took this number and backformed an etymology by considering "-plex" to be a new suffix.

In other notations
In Hyper-E Notation, it can be written as E100#2 or EE100.

In Conway-Wechsler's -illion notation, it has the very long name

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In Jonathan Bowers' -illion system, a googolplex also has a long name:

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In popular culture
The company Google named their headquarters "the Googleplex."

Even though googolplex is easily surpassed by larger numbers, it has nonetheless been used as a benchmark for a large quantity that is difficult to comprehend. In the documentary , Carl Sagan discusses the difficulty of writing out a googolplex.

Numbers near googolplex
Dario Alpern maintains a website listing the known factors of \(10^{10^{100}} + n\), where n is an integer from 0 to 999. The case \(n = 1\) has the smallest known factor 316912650057057350374175801344000001, found by Robert Harley. Several larger prime factors are known. \(10^{10^{100}} + 37\) is the smallest with no known prime factors.

A few of those numbers have a huge number of known factors due to their algebraic properties. In particular, \(10^{10^{100}} + 10\) has 57445 known prime factors, beginning with: 2, 5, 7, 11, 11, 13, 19, 23, 503, 607, 739, 809, ...