User:Vel!

Hi! I'm Followed by 100 zeroes, the man of many high numbers. I'm a total geek, obsessed with trivial things like Rubik's cubes, chess, and (surprise, surprise!) big numbers. Others think I'm totally nuts, and, in a way, I agree with them.

I call myself a googologist. goo&bull;gol'&bull;o&bull;gist (goo-GALL-oh-jist) - n. one who studies large numbers and the nomenclature of large numbers. See also googology and googologism.

The Short Story of How I Became A Googologist
That story again? OK. Here we go.

''It all started when I was young, and I knew about as much as most of you other guys—like how one million = $$10^6$$ and how one googol = $$10^{100}$$. And I was happy with that, and I didn't know about and didn't need to use any numbers that were higher.

''But it was like that until one day, I was visiting a friend and found out that he had a poster on his wall that listed all the -illion numbers up to a vigintillion = $$10^{3(20)+3} = 10^{63}$$. That's where people think I went a little bit crazy. I went to the computer and, after a bit of web surfing, wrote up all of the -illion numbers up to a vigintillion = $$10^{3(20)+3} = 10^{63}$$ and a few other numbers like the googol $$\left(10^{100}\right)$$ and googolplex $$\left(10^{10^{100}}\right)$$.''

''But that wasn't enough. For the next few weeks, I used up a lot of my spare time researching and sticking numbers in my large number list. But I didn't get much. Just a few numbers like the myriad = 1000, googolplexplex = $$10^{10^{10^{100}}}$$, and centillion = $$10^{303}$$. Not much if you ask me.''

Since it wasn't a very fruitful research, I eventually completely forgot about the large number list, and even before then I wasn't so keen on googology—I didn't even know the word existed.

''That is, until the computer crashed and we had to move the backed-up files. That's when I noticed the old Large Numbers.doc file, and I remembered the old times of yore—when I used to be interested in large numbers.''

''So I started to continually research about googology. Then I realized it: There are a lot more big numbers out there than I originally thought! First, there's Jonathan Bower's extensive list of creatively named huge numbers, and next, there's Robert Munafo's amazing web site about large numbers, and Andre Joyce's creative system for generalized googologisms. (You can find the original pages for these great sites in the External links section below.)''

After discovering this, I finally gave up on putting them all on one list and decided to just look around and just look at what other googologists have done.

But now, I've decided to make my own wiki about large numbers, biographies of googologists, and more. But I'm still waiting for the Wikia folks to come along and accept it, but for now, I'm all right. So thanks to all of you, and remember, I'm Followed by 100 zeroes.

About the Upcoming Wiki
The main reason I joined Wikia Requests was to make a wiki, Googology Wiki. Although Googology Wiki (GW) isn't ready yet, you can still visit the request here.

GW will be a wiki about, uh, large numbers and googology. It will also contain the bios of some googologists and a full reference about the large numbers people have come up with over time.

Please notify me at my Talk page if you would like to join my community. I'm the only member so far, and that's not surprising.

My Idiosyncrasies

 * This user has installed the Dummy Lipsum Firefox Add-on.
 * This user holds his pencil between the index and middle finger.
 * This user is famous for being the shortest person in many groups.
 * This user has folded a paper violinist from an A4 sheet of paper, though it didn't look real nice.
 * This user believes that viola jokes are formed because violists are the only member of the orchestra that can stand having a joke cycle about them.
 * This user thinks that nothing is something.