"Fortunately, there's a simpler, more precise way of writing a Googolplex." Guy who wrote Googolplex on paper roll: "GODDAMMIT!"
@darienbarth3191
6 жыл бұрын
Salacious T Hahahahahaha
@JohanLGT
4 жыл бұрын
well.. he didn't exactly write googolplex on that paper.. faaaar from it lol
@pokermaster-wl8bt
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@georgesabb1890
Жыл бұрын
@@JohanLGT its sarcasm
@Aramanth
8 жыл бұрын
I like the elegant way Carl links his zeroes with a top line.
@cardogkitchen4106
10 жыл бұрын
"A googolplex is as precisely as far from infinity as is the number one." Mindblown.
@Punchadragon
9 жыл бұрын
lol i like ur profile i actually tried to swat the screen
@THENEWS01010101
9 жыл бұрын
Look up Graham's number and have your mind REALLY blown.
@oussahadd
6 жыл бұрын
Graham's number is as precisely as far from infinity as is the number one :)
@lostn65
4 жыл бұрын
and half of infinity is still infinity. You divide it by any number, or subtract any number from it and its size does not shrink.
@RCassinello
2 жыл бұрын
And if you consider that there is an infinite number of whole numbers, between each of those infinite whole numbers, there is an infinite number of fractions...
@dirrtydutch
10 жыл бұрын
It's really cool how he draws his zeros connected - sweet math handwriting
@MagnusSkiptonLLC
6 жыл бұрын
Challenge accepted: A little while ago, I printed out the largest prime number (because I'm a big nerd) on standard 8.5x11 paper at 3-point font, with half-inch margins. Tiny, but still large enough to read by the naked eye (and large enough for the printer to print legibly). It took about 175 pages, front and back. The largest prime is 22,338,618 digits long, giving 22,338,618 digits / 175 pages. 22,338,618 is 10^7.35, which means I need 10^92.65 times as many pages as before to print a googleplex. 175 pages x 10^92.65 is 10^94.89 pages. A single page is about 30 mm^3 in volume. Thus, this would require a volume of 30 mm^3 / page * 10^94.89 pages is 10^96.37 mm^3 total. One light-year is 9.46 x 10^18 mm, so that equates out to volume of 2.77 x 10^39 ly^3, which is a cube 140 TRILLION light-years on each side. If the stack of paper were the size of a house, the visible universe would be the size of a small marble. Can't be stuffed into the universe, indeed.
@jafmoveez2446
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your diligence but I'm guessing you don't have a girlfriend. Lol
@amirki3391
5 жыл бұрын
@@jafmoveez2446 yeah, i also think so
@kishaloyb.7937
3 жыл бұрын
@@jafmoveez2446 girlfriend is temporary, knowledge is eternal xD
@harvindensunthirasekaran8288
3 жыл бұрын
This, this is an important comment
@TheSelfHelpTube
2 жыл бұрын
@@kishaloyb.7937 Unless, perhaps, that knowledge is incomplete. We only have "known" largest prime numbers. There are msot certainly larger. Our friend here is very outdated already.
@TJ413
14 жыл бұрын
"What do you do for a living?" "I work with Carl Sagan." "That must be cool." "He gave me a roll of paper and told me to write a googolplex on it." "Seriously?" "Yup. Worst. Boss. Ever."
@leandar
16 жыл бұрын
I've always found Sagan's statement "A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1" to be a very profound statement.
@greggblade810
8 жыл бұрын
You keep believing, I'll keep evolving! awesome quote
@barkon
13 жыл бұрын
Because it sticks in my head the most, I believe that this was the first episode of Cosmos I watched back in '80. It also introduced me to classical music. The Haydn Trumpet Concerto remains my favorite piece. Thanks, Dr. Sagan!
@ismaelirizarry7316
10 жыл бұрын
Ok, so, mindblown. Thanks. But still been trying to wrap my head around this for about two days now. So I opened an excel sheet and typed the number one. Then below it typed =A1*2 and dragged that formula to repeat itself to see how far it would go. After just the hundred trillions, excel gets lazy and just adds zeros to the back of the numbers and that's just 1*10^15. After 1*10^145 the numbers didn't fit on the screen and after 9*10^307 it just reads error. So I tried Word. typed a page of zeros at 8 pt font then copied and pasted it. Did that for 10 pages then copied and pasted that till 100 pages etc etc. After 20,000 pages I only have 150,000,000 zeros an that's just 1.5*10^8 and the computer takes almost two minutes to load a new paste.I love that I can put in a simple math idea and crash my computer.
@mukhtarhussain2659
5 жыл бұрын
you are amazing :)
@stevel7192
7 жыл бұрын
Carl still dropping knowledge. Thank you!!
@A1R5N1P3R
10 жыл бұрын
googol > google
@brawlstarsyt7981
3 жыл бұрын
Google play
@A1R5N1P3R
3 жыл бұрын
@@brawlstarsyt7981 Google Music no longer exists.
@margarethillier9188
11 жыл бұрын
RIP Carl Sagan. As a young person at the time, I found his series, Cosmos,to be thoroughly enthralling. It ignited in me an insatiable desire to learn about Science. He was a superlative teacher and one of the greatest minds of the 20th Century. A true genius.
@RodneyAllanPoe
14 жыл бұрын
Genius. I need to buy this series on DVD. I've forgotten how much pure intellectual gold is in it. Thanks asantos for the upload. I was laughing all the way through. Carl = legend x 10 ^ Googplex.
@Powerbandm
Жыл бұрын
It’s on Amazon for $35 🤘
@anonymousmobster2444
3 жыл бұрын
This dude took: "Oh you like math? Then name every number." To the next fucking level
@Kariakas
13 жыл бұрын
Cosmos, even if it is a few decades old, should be seen by all. What a wonderful series that provokes thought and logic. Carl Sagan was a great person influencing countless people. Much respect to him and those that follow in his footsteps like Neil Tyson Degrasse... wish our media would promote this stuff more instead of ignorance.
@nathanieliwata9260
8 жыл бұрын
"Googol PLEXSSS"
@jafmoveez2446
5 жыл бұрын
Loved his work
@JimCampbell777
Жыл бұрын
I recall this episode originally airing. The brain remembers when we learn strange words like Googolplex!
@Hubs88
9 жыл бұрын
Infinity gives us an endless source of amazement LOL.
@shadowlesswarrior
Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this episode as a kid, it really got stuck in my head.
@ubernaffa
13 жыл бұрын
Everything this man says inspires me.
@seeker1620
3 жыл бұрын
If you are reading this comment how are you now
@sergio.vargas444
12 жыл бұрын
Carl always makes me learn new things, man
@PeterGeras
12 жыл бұрын
That explanation of Graham's number's size doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of it!
@franzbm
13 жыл бұрын
An all-seasons classic
@thomthumbe
Жыл бұрын
I’ve used this example (what is, and how large is a Googolplex) as a “nugget of thought” when teaching engineering courses. It never fails to blow a few minds in the classroom. Inevitably there is a student who smugly doubts the immensity of a Googolplex, and who promises to “come back tomorrow” with a better, more suitable way to write it down. They return for the next class and sheepishly admit they laid awake more than once trying to picture this number in their head only to gradually realize they are dealing with an incredible size that cannot be dealt with outside of the way/method DR Sagan provides.
@WhatIAm99
15 жыл бұрын
Whenever Sagan's eyes meet the camera in this, or any other video, I feel supremely inadequate. Such a monument to modern science. RIP
@brianspruill5424
8 жыл бұрын
I love how he says googol the first time. I watched "Cosmos" when I was a teenager. Brilliant man!
@idellwilkerson6745
4 жыл бұрын
The Sagan version or the Tyson version?
@caboose176545
10 жыл бұрын
In case anyone was wondering (i know i was) the music is Haydn's trumpet concerto E flat 3rd mov
@dashboardforfire
14 жыл бұрын
i love the way he writes his zeros.
@soroushbahrami438
2 жыл бұрын
I clicked on this video only to hear Carl Sagan say "GOOGOL"
@ericsbuds
15 жыл бұрын
very good thinking!
@SiliconBong
11 жыл бұрын
You have earned my subscription for knowing about elocution, not a word commonly used in the smoko room at my place of work : )
@mariaisabelparra129
8 жыл бұрын
If you wish to make Google from scratch, you just first invent the internet.
@spicygarlicsauce
8 жыл бұрын
+MARIA ISABEL PARRA lol
@anthonysevere
Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the 80’s, my father would sit me down to watch Sagan on PBS. We saw this specific episode on its original broadcast. The next school day I told my friends mom I had learned the word “googol,” and she told me to “Stop using baby talk.” It’s my dad’s favorite story about my youth and education.
@MeganVictoriaKearns
Жыл бұрын
I could listen to Carl Sagan's voice forever. Don't even care what he is saying. Well, I prefer he speak about science, but I'd take whatever!
@sfasfads
13 жыл бұрын
"The total number of elementary particles ... in the accessable universe is of the order of 10^80." I'd love to see the calculations on that one.
@Sanzaru123
14 жыл бұрын
when your dead, your dead, you are exactly like everything and everyone around you. without the little particles and atoms in your head to know what was going on,you would be like you were before you were born,unable to think, unable to know, unable to do anything. we are equal to this universe, we are nothing special.we are like the plants, the animals, and the planets. we are just parts of this amazing and beautiful universe. and we are able to have the gift to know how it works. -Carl Sagan
@Maddolis
11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, it's very baffling but I'd love to find out some of this stuff.
@gerrymoran1
13 жыл бұрын
The most compelling response to the futility of writing out a googolplex would be to say, "Well why not make the zeros really small or write on incredibly thin paper".....until you do the math. The known Universe is ~ 10^78 m3. If we were to divide it up into a googol boxes, a box for each zero, then each box would be ~ 10^-22m3. That's roughly the size of a hydrogen atom. Put another way you could just about cram a googol H atoms into the known universe with no spaces in between.
@Videos4theabsurd
11 жыл бұрын
I like how he wrote his zeros.
@Jumbo344
Ай бұрын
That was the best thing I learned all year 😂
@ManuelMartinez-so1dp
Жыл бұрын
What a great man!
@solidv2
14 жыл бұрын
Carl is the man !
@kingoftrolls
11 жыл бұрын
well done
@gbessone
14 жыл бұрын
I love how this guy speaks.
@charliebell01
14 жыл бұрын
in school this might bore me, with sagan its a great journey to knowledge
@rbkstrm
4 жыл бұрын
That was awesome. Now i understand what a googol is. 4 tries later. Thx for the uppload. "Big blue thumb"
@Monerasauce
12 жыл бұрын
There's something oddly entertaining about listening to Carl Sagan :)
@PimpMasterT
6 жыл бұрын
His marker is so inky....i love it.
@victorialazareva
11 жыл бұрын
what a fancy way to write zeroes! :)
@WeeWeeJumbo
14 жыл бұрын
@Russe11john Your comment really delivers.
@MichaelWellsMW
8 жыл бұрын
What did I learn today? That you can "Stack" exponents. I didn't knw that you could write 10 ^(10^100) like that. It must make for some mind twisting math to keep that straight.
@thewisefool4049
7 жыл бұрын
Wait until you get a load of Graham's number en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number it's so big that stacking exponents isn't enough to express it. It needs to use en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation
@Chimerasame
14 жыл бұрын
Does MS Word have some kind of internal compression algorithm? It seems to me that to write it in a text file, it'd require a googol bytes, which is a substantially larger amount of storage.
@anticorncob6
12 жыл бұрын
@OtonielRochaSC Você sabe mesmo o Inglês?
@skoz14
13 жыл бұрын
lmao i love they last few seconds
@WarrenGreig
13 жыл бұрын
Is that Cambridge (UK) where he tries to unfurl the roll of paper?
@catrapesco
9 ай бұрын
He's a superstar
@y0utube2438
14 жыл бұрын
2:49 always makes me happy =) RIP Carl
@midu914
10 жыл бұрын
I think Google is listening to my conversations through my smart phone. I was just talking about Googol & Googolplex this morning. This is not the first time something like this has happened.
@1ordmorgu1
15 жыл бұрын
FYI that number would be much more than 100,000 zeros following the 1. 100,000 zeros is 10^5^1 which is much less than even 10^10^1, much less 10^10^10.
@BPMification
13 жыл бұрын
@azsabin I actually love how he writes his zeros.
@JAD3889
14 жыл бұрын
@takkie23 The time it would take to write such a number also renders the task implausible: if a person can write two digits per second, it would take around about 1.51 × 1092 years, which is 1.1 × 1082 times the age of the universe, to write a googolplex.
@marcbarber2209
9 жыл бұрын
I always thought that...
@steviebboy69
6 жыл бұрын
I am sure I read or saw on another KZitem channel that a larger number was something like Aleph Null? If i said that word correctly.
@anticorncob6
13 жыл бұрын
@Zarrykotter How many digits are in 2^googolplex? I know the answer without a calculator. :)
@TheDeathofGrace
14 жыл бұрын
@teejayandjon i know right.. i was wondering who put those zeros on the paper. you know sagan didnt do it.
@NoxiousNova
14 жыл бұрын
Carl Sagan is amazing^ Googolplex.
@tomthecool
12 жыл бұрын
@kaneda956 A duotrigintillion is the name given to 10^99 - so using the same common system, 10^100 is equal to ten duotrigintillion. A "googol" is just a simpler, more commonly used name for this same number
@Matt0I0Attack
13 жыл бұрын
Nice ending
@anticorncob6
12 жыл бұрын
@OtonielRochaSC Is that quoted from the bible?
@MrSagelel
11 жыл бұрын
could you write out the zeroes please?
@SaulMeyersz
13 жыл бұрын
hes a got such an authoritative voice
@JuanchoMan
14 жыл бұрын
wat episode is this?
@mout12
14 жыл бұрын
Yes he did. Look at the very end of the video.
@tacospartan
13 жыл бұрын
Is a Googolplex a 1 followed by a 1 and a 100 zeroes?
@tadeuk2k
14 жыл бұрын
the googlolplex is unthinkable
@HarrLinda
13 жыл бұрын
Dr. Sagan had a sense of humor, didn't he? Such a genius. I would have loved to been in his class he taught at Cambridge University in ithica, New York. I understand that his classes had wait lists after his show aired! Would'nt that have been cool to have had Carl for a teacher!? Great things he tried to teach us!
@jimgriffith2859
2 жыл бұрын
That's Cornell University in Ithaca NY. Cambridge is in the UK.
@TheZerothDegree
13 жыл бұрын
@lzoli18B It was a joke - he said "we STARTED to write it". Remember a googol is MANY times greater than the number of elementary particles in the known universe, and a googolplex is 10 to the POWER of that many. So it's 1 followed by more zeroes than there are particles in the known universe.
@soundbeans
15 жыл бұрын
hahah the trumpet music is brilliant
@hooah68
15 жыл бұрын
anyone recognize where this was shot at?
@targettmark88
13 жыл бұрын
So it's 1 with how many zeros after the first digit ???
@Topmercs
12 жыл бұрын
@Xanatos712 Indeed. And then the different sizes to infinity complicate things further. :)
@Commentorio
14 жыл бұрын
Couuld it be the same thing with lightspeed? As Carl Sagan explained in earlier episodes, you can only approach the speed of light, but you can never get there (as far as we know now). Maybe those are just the boundaries nature has set for us.
@Greig1424
15 жыл бұрын
this man was the greatest thinker of the modern world and he was american its ashame he wasn't from a country that undertood him better
@artistsandbox
14 жыл бұрын
@TensorKhan Just think, the number of zeros written would exceed the number of elementary particles in the universe by a factor of a googol minus 80.
@Volound
13 жыл бұрын
@Spartank43x because he wasnt alluding to the googol with that, but the googolplex.
@seaquat
15 жыл бұрын
i love to see that Googol and Googolplex ;)
@dudeinoakland
14 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know which university he is at in this video?
@greghendrix6073
11 жыл бұрын
The Googlexplex article on Wikipedia has a fairly good demonstration of that.
@anticorncob6
13 жыл бұрын
@Zarrykotter I mean 2^GOOGOL not 2^googolplex that has too many digits... LOL
@yuyunalesca4
13 жыл бұрын
"... and yet, these numbers, the googol and the googolplex, do not approach, they come no where near infinity. In fact a googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number one" - Carl Sagan. Yet another attempt to impress us with the infinite by aid of the finite. I have to say large numbers have done a hell of a lot more to make infinity seem big than infinity has ever done to make large numbers seem small ! Finite numbers are also better at making other finite numbers look small.
@anticorncob6
12 жыл бұрын
@crazygeo81 Just because all numbers are a bunch of ones added together, doesn't mean 1 is the only number. And just because they are the same distance from infinity doesn't make them the same number.
@SebastianLundh1988
16 жыл бұрын
Man, that is a big number!:D
@GrandSupremeDaddyo
13 жыл бұрын
The video cut out suddenly because the guy they got to write out the googolplex ran in and punched Sagan.
@minimalrho
14 жыл бұрын
Exponentiation is notably not associative, 10^10^100 can have two radically different meanings. (10^10)^100=10^1000, which would be 1 followed by a thousand zeros. But a googolplex is 10^(10^100).
@jalisawilliams9078
7 жыл бұрын
Just learned something today.. ayyye go me go me go me!
@brettt.9464
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone know where this was filmed? Is it Cornell?
@llaurita2
Жыл бұрын
Cambridge
@thermos26
13 жыл бұрын
Hitting 3 over and over again makes my happy.
@redshark618
11 жыл бұрын
I once heard an approximation of a googolplex that I took at face-value: imagine if the entire universe were stuffed with dust particles only a few micrometers wide. The first single particle would be 1, the second 2, and so on. The total number of possibilities of arranging these particles in the universe approached a googolplex.
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