Unofficial Tex Murphy

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.

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?

Well I'm glad everybody had fun. Wanna try for another one?

Tessellation

Hint: It is math related but at the same time it's something you see in everyday life everywhere you go.

I was going to guess one number higher than anyone elses - would that have counted or would I have been disqualified?

As for Fred's post, on the story, I was tempted to add a paragraph about Tex finishing his drink, thinking it had been a long ten minutes and ordering a double!

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

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.

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

Do you know why 6 is afraid of 7???

I know what a tesselation is too. Guess I'm dqed too.

Baf because 789.

I heard it on a cartoon my Son use to watch called Dexter's Laboratory... He use to love that joke...

Well if nobody can make a guess for tesselation, we can forget about that one.

Fred, you want a go with stumping us with an interesting word? It doesn't have to be math related.

All righty then. As I'm a word-nerd, here's one for ya:

Onomatopoeia.

Go!

-Fred

Oh I love that word. Alas I remember it from school.

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.

Good one Jim.