To count is to talk the language of numbers. To countto a googol, or to count to ten is part of the sameprocess; the googol is simply harder to pronounce. Theessential thing to realize is that the googol and ten arekin, like the giant stars and the electron. Arithmetic—this counting language—makes the whole world kin,both in space and in time. Mathematics may well be ascience of austere logical propositions in precise canon-ical form, but in its countless applications it serves as atool and a language, the language of description, of number and size
