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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 |
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