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The highest numerical value banknote ever printed was a note for 1 sextillion pengő (10 21 or 1 milliard bilpengő as printed) printed in Hungary in 1946. In 2009, Zimbabwe printed a 100 trillion (10 14 ) Zimbabwean dollar note, which at the time of printing was worth about US$30. [ 13 ]
Rayo's number is a large number named after Mexican philosophy professor Agustín Rayo which has been claimed to be the largest named number. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was originally defined in a "big number duel" at MIT on 26 January 2007.
The Ancient Greeks used a system based on the myriad, that is, ten thousand, and their largest named number was a myriad myriad, or one hundred million. In The Sand Reckoner , Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) devised a system of naming large numbers reaching up to
Rayo's number is a large number named after Agustín Rayo which has been claimed to be the largest named number. ... Ever-faster-increasing functions can easily be ...
Graham's number was used by Graham in conversations with popular science writer Martin Gardner as a simplified explanation of the upper bounds of the problem he was working on. In 1977, Gardner described the number in Scientific American, introducing it to the general public. At the time of its introduction, it was the largest specific positive ...
A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.
In 2004, family members of Kasner, who had inherited the right to his book, were considering suing Google for their use of the term "googol"; [11] however, no suit was ever filed. [ 12 ] Since October 2009, Google has been assigning domain names to its servers under the domain "1e100.net", the scientific notation for 1 googol, in order to ...
Mathematics: Rayo's number is a large number named after Agustín Rayo which has been claimed to be the largest number to have ever been named. [92] It was originally defined in a "big number duel" at MIT on 26 January 2007. [93]