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Oh here's a listing of some references to Googolplex in popular culture that I pulled from a website.
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http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Googolplex
Googolplex (an extremely large movie theater) appears several episodes of The Simpsons and in the video game The Simpsons Hit & Run
The search engine Google (a deliberate misspelling of googol) refers to its headquarters as the Googleplex, likely an abbreviation of "Google Complex".
The "Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity" appears (an earlier "playful" misspelling) in the Douglas Adams 1979 novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
The band Clutch released an album in 2002 called Live at the Googolplex.
In episode IX of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series, Sagan, illustrating the advantages of scientific notation over decimal notation, starts writing a googolplex on a roll of paper. He unwinds the roll of paper throughout Cambridge University's campus, before finally giving up.
In Back to the Future Part III, Emmett Brown, in lamenting the loss of the girl of his dreams, says, "Clara was one in a million. One in a billion. One in a googol-plex."
Googol and Googolplex are also several times mentioned by the protagonist, the 9 year-old Oskar, of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close".
In Phineas & Ferb, the mall seen in several episodes is called the Googolplex Mall.
In the Loonatics Unleashed Season 1 Episode "The Comet Cometh" Tech creates a device which amplifies Ace's laster vision by "a full factor of google." Rev begins to explain what it is only to be interrupted by Danger Duck in boredom.
The word googolplex was referred from the song "One Googolplex Dollar" by zulbrunei in his album "Dandruff".
In the book Girl Who Owned a City, a googolplex is known as a "fun number."
In the "Jack versus Mad Jack" episode of Samurai Jack, a bounty hunter claims that Aku is offering two Googolplex on his head.
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http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Googolplex
Googolplex (an extremely large movie theater) appears several episodes of The Simpsons and in the video game The Simpsons Hit & Run
The search engine Google (a deliberate misspelling of googol) refers to its headquarters as the Googleplex, likely an abbreviation of "Google Complex".
The "Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity" appears (an earlier "playful" misspelling) in the Douglas Adams 1979 novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
The band Clutch released an album in 2002 called Live at the Googolplex.
In episode IX of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series, Sagan, illustrating the advantages of scientific notation over decimal notation, starts writing a googolplex on a roll of paper. He unwinds the roll of paper throughout Cambridge University's campus, before finally giving up.
In Back to the Future Part III, Emmett Brown, in lamenting the loss of the girl of his dreams, says, "Clara was one in a million. One in a billion. One in a googol-plex."
Googol and Googolplex are also several times mentioned by the protagonist, the 9 year-old Oskar, of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close".
In Phineas & Ferb, the mall seen in several episodes is called the Googolplex Mall.
In the Loonatics Unleashed Season 1 Episode "The Comet Cometh" Tech creates a device which amplifies Ace's laster vision by "a full factor of google." Rev begins to explain what it is only to be interrupted by Danger Duck in boredom.
The word googolplex was referred from the song "One Googolplex Dollar" by zulbrunei in his album "Dandruff".
In the book Girl Who Owned a City, a googolplex is known as a "fun number."
In the "Jack versus Mad Jack" episode of Samurai Jack, a bounty hunter claims that Aku is offering two Googolplex on his head.
Samantha
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Thanks for the fun ride, Sam. The wide variety of answers and the wonderful attempts at levity made this adventure more exciting.
In BTTF III, Doc Brown was in the sallon nearing the end of the movie. He was about to take a drink which, in his case, would prove catostophic, when he uttered that line: "One in a googleplex." I knew it had to do with some VERY large number but I wasn't sure of the details. I also appreciated the other uses of this term. Good job to Baf et al for their efforts!
Maybe we should start a trivia thread?
In BTTF III, Doc Brown was in the sallon nearing the end of the movie. He was about to take a drink which, in his case, would prove catostophic, when he uttered that line: "One in a googleplex." I knew it had to do with some VERY large number but I wasn't sure of the details. I also appreciated the other uses of this term. Good job to Baf et al for their efforts!
Maybe we should start a trivia thread?
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"
Darnit, ya varmint. I is disqualified again. I gone dun knows it all. Shucks.
I am completely covered by my knowledge insurance, however. Yuk-yuk-yuk!
-Fred
I am completely covered by my knowledge insurance, however. Yuk-yuk-yuk!
-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Sorry DL but a googolplex is a specific number. Not just any random big number.
Fred, you must be a closet math nerd. These are fun math terms I learned as a kid. Do you know the amazing story of nine?
Okay next time you can come up with a mysterious word we can guess.
Fred, you must be a closet math nerd. These are fun math terms I learned as a kid. Do you know the amazing story of nine?
Okay next time you can come up with a mysterious word we can guess.
Samantha
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
It's not so much math as it is certain terms and concepts. Comes with me being fascinated by all the things humanity has put a name to, I guess.
Alrighty, will do.
-Fred
Alrighty, will do.
-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Do you know why 6 is afraid of 7??? 
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I heard it on a cartoon my Son use to watch called Dexter's Laboratory... He use to love that joke...
The Paved Straight Road, Won't Always Get You Farther Than The Winding Dirt Road...
Can You Run Your Game??? Click Here And Find Out...
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Can You Run Your Game??? Click Here And Find Out...
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I...I...I...am...dumb...founded! Maybe I should have tried harder when I was in school...like, you know, getting up and going to school.
P.S. If Fred and Sam were married, I wonder what conversations would be like in their home? ie: Hi Sam, I'm home! Hi Fred, how was your day? Oh, you know, the usual. I ran into a googleplex of problems that I had to solve before there was a meltdown at the Fermi III nuclear plant. How about you? Oh, you know, the same ol' tessellation of dealing with sub-par humans and having to do the work of 10 people just so I could finish my onomatopoeia. Yeah, I hear ya. Well, at least you didn't have to face my boss with his supercalifragelisticexpiallidocious attitude. Aw, I so sorry honey. I know he can be quite an antidisestablishmentarism megalomaniac at times.
P.S. If Fred and Sam were married, I wonder what conversations would be like in their home? ie: Hi Sam, I'm home! Hi Fred, how was your day? Oh, you know, the usual. I ran into a googleplex of problems that I had to solve before there was a meltdown at the Fermi III nuclear plant. How about you? Oh, you know, the same ol' tessellation of dealing with sub-par humans and having to do the work of 10 people just so I could finish my onomatopoeia. Yeah, I hear ya. Well, at least you didn't have to face my boss with his supercalifragelisticexpiallidocious attitude. Aw, I so sorry honey. I know he can be quite an antidisestablishmentarism megalomaniac at times.
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"