Math Lesson
A googol's a number designed to
boggle--
a "1" with a hundred
zeros in train--
do you think there have been, since
the world began,
a googol drops of rain?
Or might there be, on any beach
a googol grains of sand?
Or in God's mind, on a given day
a googol actions planned?
The name came from Kasner, the
mathematician
(though legend has it his son
supplied it):
What did he do with it after he
named it?
He thought about it and multiplied
it,
leaving us with the Googolplex--
which all the world's mathematical
heroes,
writing together, year by year
could never supply with all its
zeroes.
Googolplex! Ten to the googol
power--
more zeroes than the eye can see.
The power of googol--what does that
mean?
It means a lot to me.
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