Ron Graham liked to entertain people. In his youth he performed in a travelling circus group, delighting audiences with his juggling and acrobatics. Later, when he became a Professor of Mathematics in ...

You might know that a googol—the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes—is a very large number indeed. You might even know that a googolplex—a 1 followed by a googol of zeros—is an even bigger number. But ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

What is the largest number you can imagine? I’m sure more than one reader will paraphrase Han Solo, thinking they can imagine a lot. But whatever the number they say, it surely doesn’t even come close ...

There are numbers out there that are so enormously, impossibly vast that to even write them down would require the entire universe. But here’s the really crazy thing…some of these incomprehensibly ...

Q: Could you ask C. Morris of Noblesville, Ind., whether "Googleplex" is some kind of search engine for wrestling maneuvers, or possibly an enormous Internet cafe? Or did he mean "Googolplex"? "Google ...

There are around 920 to 3,170 octillion microbes on the planet (920 x 10^27 to 3170 x 10^27), Steven D'Hondt, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, told Live Science. This ...

From the grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth to the number of stars in the sky, our universe is teeming with big numbers. Miles beneath our feet, there could lie a quadrillion tons of diamonds.