From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!uwvax!reid
Newsgroups: net.trivia
Title: Re: what"s a googol?
Article-I.D.: uwvax.617
Posted: Thu Oct  7 00:41:50 1982
Received: Fri Oct  8 07:10:23 1982
References: hou5e.111

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:

googol:  The number 10 raised to the power 100;  The number 1 followed
	by 100 zeros.  [coined by Edward Kasner, American mathematician]

googolplex:  The number 10 raised to the power googol;  the number 1
	followed by 10^100 zeros.  [googol + (du)plex]


Glenn Reid
...harpo!seismo!uwvax!reid

P.S.  This should, I think, end all speculation.