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Googolplex.com and Googolplexian.com were two jocular web sites that listed "all" the digits of googolplex and googolplexian (standard name googolduplex).[1][2] They appear to be affiliated with PointlessSites.com, as evidenced by a whois search. They are no longer online, but can still be accessed with Wayback Machine or a similar archive site.

Of course, the decimal expansions of the numbers are so large that there would not be enough space in the known universe to contain them. In fact, both sites, after a long sequence of zeroes, print a small "etc." at the end. Even worse, googolplex.com contains a hidden 8, and googolplexian.com contains a hidden 6.

Googolplex.com contains 5463 zeroes (5464 counting the hidden 8 as a zero). Googolplexian.com contains 15,972 zeroes (15,973 counting the 6). The 8 in googolplex.com comes after 4230 zeroes and before 1233 zeroes, while the 6 in googolplexian.com comes after 8235 zeroes and before 7737 zeroes.

The two sites erroneously claim that googolplexian is "the world's largest number with a name" and that googolplex comes in second place. Googologists have devised much larger named numbers; for example, tritri. In fact, Googolplex and Googolplexian are not bigger than Large Number Garden Number, the actual largest named number (currently).

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