Wealthy ROFFIAN- ME!

"Joe Ellis" wrote in message
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then nothing I know of up until

10^100: google (no, I'm not kidding... and it's where the search engine
got it's name.)

Well, actually, to put a nerdy point on it, the number is spelled googol.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=googol

Google explains the name at the bottom of this page:
http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html

Oh, and congratulations Lou! When the money comes in, contact me because if
you let me borrow a mil. I can get $75 mil. from my source in Nigeria.
--
Stan Gula
http://gula.org/roffswaps

"Stan Gula" wrote in message
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"Joe Ellis" wrote in message
...
then nothing I know of up until

10^100: google (no, I'm not kidding... and it's where the search engine
got it's name.)

Well, actually, to put a nerdy point on it, the number is spelled googol.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=googol

Google explains the name at the bottom of this page:
http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html

Oh, and congratulations Lou! When the money comes in, contact me because
if
you let me borrow a mil. I can get $75 mil. from my source in Nigeria.

Um......I got 75 sources in Nigeria.

Wolfgang
a couple more iterations and we can all retire!

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:52:00 GMT, "Stan Gula"
wrote:

"Joe Ellis" wrote in message
...
then nothing I know of up until

10^100: google (no, I'm not kidding... and it's where the search engine
got it's name.)

Well, actually, to put a nerdy point on it...

Oops...86,400 seconds too late, and 100 cents US/348.12CDN/.84EURO
short...besides, the glass ceiling of nerdy has long been lying in
shards amongst the peanut shells, sawdust, and assorted feathers on the
floor of the ROFF roadhouse...

HTH,
R
....who wonders, in such matters as number of atoms in the universe and
Kreh numbers, why "who gives a ****?" isn't plenty close enough...

Google explains the name at the bottom of this page:
http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html

That says: What's a Google?

"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by
100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American
mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book,
"Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman.

I remember reading, many years ago, that John von Neumann was talking
with his son or nephew or grandson about big numbers and asked the kid
what they should call a 1 with a hundred zeroes after it. The kid
thought a moment and said, "googol."

Is my memory playing a trick on me?

vince