What is the biggest number?
May 18, 2008
Numbers can go on for infinity but around 1920, a nine-year-old boy named Milton Sirotta came up with the term Googol which is a 1 with 100 zeros after it. He then came up with another number he called a googolplex which would be a 1 followed by as many zeros as you could possibly write. Milton’s mathematician uncle, Edward Kasner, further defined a googolplex to be a 1 with a googol of zeros behind it.
Even a googol is of little use since there are not that many particles in the entire universe.
What is the Longest Word?
May 18, 2008
According to Fun with Words, the longest word found in a dictionary is
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
however the word was a created in 1935 to be the longest word and is described by the Oxford English Dictionary as facetious.
The longest word in use is found in Gould’s Medical Dictionary it is
HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES
The longest song title is
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS