Imagine a number. A very large number. Something along the lines of 2584356564625547964792687365878356985673985675396539687358672534984570076356982716
56457646610745638756357363093765539875634985634838563896539856358965
00038145670368763874561347856390537912360574693119076510960677863474
43578395634856234985140563408756234875460436512375683470657834563475
73854689346574987563894563895613056314507836578357183604857613405865
34563908656354635615547445364791806451230752149604824016404503453402
00982165721092019404261018476489798784251023516846846435135186476846
16687189046506049047907490409404980498118421098757987924797025790884
45613408563407856183456187645873264587623957290643058734805134675094
57643789563198075638597634857967379856723497623987563795863496575389
57638563984567439856347859634859764387596349875634985634895763981564
43756349056340975093186751309354750813569134765908346579374569316173
66674835639856134985612408951486735486149587634159873645934765938475 
57896734985673985734895764986739769387698357698376982735967693586795
56834975896638656666673845956389756398563879564378563485963459863544
63547563495634596734897673498673967596756987596875398679456795076233
35647856430567345837658365738475634876583456348765873465839468356737
13974653475634758563487563485624907563497563974563956345896345934780
43576874563487561423085673124085614895763489756348956483975623489578
56340564508761435086345863457845624896584363824658375648356863986365

I do not know what to call that number. So you shouldn't ask me. Or anyone else. One thing that you should do is commit that number to memory, because you will never ever see it again (unless you copy and paste it or visit this page again, but that's cheating). There are 1,374 digits in that number. If there are 10 possible numbers for each slot (although only 9 for the first slot, but we'll ignore that), that makes 101,374 possible combinations of numbers that length. Only one is our number, You would probably be more likely to win the lottery and get hit by lightning on your way home.

Now, even a number as large as that, in the grand scheme of things, is tiny! Miniscule! Insignificant! Why? Since the numbers go on forever, there is an infinite amount of numbers larger than that one, but only a finite amount smaller.

Now, imagine the number known as a googolplex. It's a 1 with a googol (one with 100 zeroes) zeroes after it, or 10100. We should write that number out sometime. Get everyone on Earth to help, it could be done, right?

No. Not really. Scientists have theorized that the number of atoms in the universe is, at a minimum, 1080. You see the problem?

There are more zeroes in a googolplex than there are atoms in the universe.

And that number is still tiny.

I suppose you could type it out. You'd just need a few yottabytes of space though.
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