Talk:googolduplex
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Only one visible English use on Google Books, where it looks like nonce wordplay rather than the specific definition given in the entry. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:18, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
- cited Kiwima (talk) 01:56, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
- The 2014 quote could mean almost any unimaginably huge number. I get the feeling that the author doesn't know or care what the word means- it's just a form of name dropping. How do we know that it means 10^googolplex and not 427 gajillion? Chuck Entz (talk) 03:19, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
- IMO it's still a use of this word; the author could've said a quinvigintillion or an untrigintillion or another of the -illion words (and some authors do: see those entries) but they used this word instead. If we wanted to change the definition to "The number 10 raised to the power of one googolplex; (by extension) a very large number" (or even have those on separate sense lines if they had enough senses each), I have no objection, but I'd be disinclined to RFV-fail the word. - -sche (discuss) 23:57, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
- The 2014 quote could mean almost any unimaginably huge number. I get the feeling that the author doesn't know or care what the word means- it's just a form of name dropping. How do we know that it means 10^googolplex and not 427 gajillion? Chuck Entz (talk) 03:19, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
RFV-passed. Kiwima (talk) 01:13, 8 July 2021 (UTC)