You might know that a googol—the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes—is a very large number indeed. You might even know that a googolplex—a 1 followed by a googol of zeros—is an even bigger number. But ...

Mathematician Edward Kasner, 59, of Columbia University, is one of the mythical baker’s dozen of savants who were supposed to be the only men in the world able to understand the Einstein theory of ...

Let your youngsters take a break from reading and writing and send them to “Googol U.” at the Discovery Center of Science & Technology, 511 E. 3rd St., Bethlehem, to study Googology. Googol U., an ...

CARL BIALIK ON THE WORD LINK BETWEEN A MASSIVE NUMBER AND THE INTERNET. The name of this year's hottest IPO, Google Inc, can be traced back to a walk in the woods just after World War I, when a boy ...

What is the largest number you can imagine? I’m sure more than one reader will paraphrase Han Solo, thinking they can imagine a lot. But whatever the number they say, it surely doesn’t even come close ...

A question-and-answer column in the Feb. 17 New York Times includes the following: "When eyebrows are shaved off or plucked, they always grow back to their original length." How come? The Times's C.

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