{"id":150,"date":"2006-10-31T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2006-10-31T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T01:29:00","slug":"my-googol-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"My googol rank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to my usage statistics, of the people who come to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\">scottaaronson.com<\/a> via a search engine, about 5% do so by typing in one of the following queries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>biggest number in the world<br \/>\nthe biggest number in the world<br \/>\nwhat is the largest number<br \/>\nlargest number in the world<br \/>\nwhat is the biggest number<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These people are then led to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/writings\/bignumbers.html\">big numbers essay<\/a>, which presumably befuddles them even more.<\/p>\n<p>So, let me satisfy the public&#8217;s curiosity once and for all: the biggest number in the world is a million billion gazillion.  But stay tuned: even as I write, Space Shuttle astronauts are combing the galaxy for an even bigger number!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to my usage statistics, of the people who come to scottaaronson.com via a search engine, about 5% do so by typing in one of the following queries: biggest number in the world the biggest number in the world what is the largest number largest number in the world what is the biggest number These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-procrastination","category-rage-against-doofosity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5993,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}