This is an interesting math tidbit. The term googol was coined by a nine year boy, Milton Sirota, who was asked to make up a word for a very large number by a mathematician named Edward Kasner. The boy worked in a factory that pulverized apricot pits to make an abrasive, so he was a good person to ask. A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, and first appeared in print in 1938.

Googol has no useful purpose in math other than a way to compare very large numbers and talk about the universe.

As you may have guessed by now, Larry Page, the founder of the Internet search engine Google, was a fan of mathematics and named his company Google after accidently misspelling the word googol.