Googlek is equal to \(16^{256} = 2^{2^{10}}\), intended as a hexadecimal analog of googol.[1] It was described on a page on the site "intuitor.com" which proposes a method for pronouncing numbers in hexadecimal. To the best of our knowledge, the page was written in 2007 by Tom Rogers, a high school teacher in South Carolina, USA.
It is approximately \(10^{308.2547}\). It is the smallest power of two not expressible as a double-precision floating point integer according to IEEE 754.
Sources
- ↑ Hexadecimal Number Words. Retrieved November 2015.