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googologist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɡuːˈɡɒləd͡ʒɪst/

Etymology

From googol + -logist.

Meanings

  1. Someone who studies googology (the study of large numbers).
    • Among serious googologists, an inelegant mishmash of existing numbers and functions that does little to enlarge the original large number is referred to as a "salad number" and is heavily frowned upon. 2018, David J. Darling, Agnijo Banerjee, Weird Math: A Teenage Genius & His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math & Everyday Life, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 220:

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