Can You Count to a Googol?

Robert E. Wells

Albert Whitman, Jan 1, 2000 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 32 pages

You may be able to count all the way to one hundred, but have you ever counted to a googol? It's impossible! In this fun book of numbers, Robert E. Wells explores the wonderful world of zeros and tells how the googol came to be named.

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User Review  - Sandra_Loya - LibraryThing

This book shows how adding a zero to the end of a number makes it ten times bigger. It uses everyday things to try to explain how big numbers can get. It goes all the way to googol, which is a 1 with ...

About the author

Robert E. Wells (Robert Ernest Wells) was born in Pasadena, CA in 1940. In the 90s, he began to put words and pictures into the form of children's books, and now in the new century he continues to do so. In 1993 he wrote and illustrated his first book, "Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There is?". Other books include "What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?" (Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, 1996), "What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah?", and his latest book, "Why Do Elephants Need the Sun?". Many of his books have been translated into various other languages.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Can You Count to a Googol?; Robert E. Wells Science Series
• Author: Robert E. Wells
• Illustrated by: Robert E. Wells
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Albert Whitman, 2000
• ISBN: 0807510602, 9780807510605
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / Counting & Numbers