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Fun Facts about Huge Numbers
Last updated at August 18, 2025 by Teachoo
Class 8 (Ganita Prakash & Old NCERT)
Chapter 2 Class 8 - Power Play (Ganita Prakash)
- Basic Concepts & Formulas
- Introduction
- Exponential Notation and Operations
- Figure it out - Page 22, 23
- The Stones that Shine ...
- Formulas of Exponents
- Magical Pond
- Multiplying & Dividing two numbers with Same Power
- Combinations
- The Other Side of Powers
- Power Lines
- Powers of 10
- Scientific Notation
- Did you ever Wonder..
- Linear Growth vs Exponential Growth
- Getting a sense of Large Numbers
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A Pinch of History
- Figure it out - Page 44, 45
Transcript
Fun Facts about Huge NumbersThe section concludes with some interesting modern terms and historical examples. A googol is the name for the number 10100. The estimated number of atoms in the universe is 1078 to 1082. A googolplex is an even larger number, written as 10googol (a 1 followed by a googol of zeros). Fun fact: Google the company was named after googlol Currency and Big Numbers The currency note with the highest denomination in India currently is 2000 rupees. Guess what is the highest denomination of a currency note ever, across the world. The highest value banknote ever printed was a special 1 sextillion pengő (1021) note in Hungary in 1946, though it was never issued. In 2009, Zimbabwe printed a 100 trillion dollar (1014) banknote which at the time of printing was worth about $30.
