Can You Count to a Googol?

You may be able to count to all the way to 100 but have you ever counted to agoogol? Its impossible In this fun book of numbers Robert E. Wells exploresthe wond... » 

You may be able to count to all the way to 100 but have you ever counted to agoogol? Its impossible In this fun book of numbers Robert E. Wells exploresthe wonderful world of zeros and tells how the googol came to be named.While you learn about place values and the names of big numbers try to imaginewhat those numbers can do. How long would it take to toast 100000marshmallows? What does a million dollars really look like? How many trillionmiles away is the star nearest our own sun and how do we know this? «