A Googol of Atoms?
Document: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=304&id=304 Abstract: What is a googol? Invented by Edward Kasner, an American mathematician who popularized the number in his 1940 book, Mathematics and the Imagination, it is a 1 followed by a hundred zeros. This directed case in estimation and very large numbers was written for a college-level introductory astronomy course, although it could also be used in a variety of...