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in powers of ten it is timesing ten by itself. i would like to know what a google is

2006-09-07 05:05:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

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GooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooGLE

lol

2006-09-07 05:11:54 · answer #1 · answered by sweetie 5 · 1 0

The name "Google" is a misspelling on the word googol. Milton Sirotta, nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner, made this word in 1938, for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros. It is said that the word "googol" was chosen to represent this number because it sounded like baby talk. Google uses this word because the company wants to organize a very large quantity of information on the Web. Andy Bechtolsheim first thought of the name.

The name for Google's main office, the "Googleplex," is a play on a different, even bigger number, "googolplex," which is 1 with 1 googol zeros.

2006-09-07 05:11:24 · answer #2 · answered by hello85 2 · 0 0

1 google=10^100 (10 to the power 100)

2006-09-09 02:14:17 · answer #3 · answered by Innocence Redefined 5 · 0 0

Googol is 10 to the 100th power (10^100). That's a 1 with 100 zeroes following.

The term was coined in 1938 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner. Kasner then extended the term to the larger "googolplex." (10^googol). It should be noted that "googol" is indeed the correct spelling of the term, so the spelling "Google" refers to the internet search engine, not one with 100 zeros.

2006-09-07 05:08:52 · answer #4 · answered by Puzzling 7 · 1 0

A googol is 10 raised to the power 100, or 1 followed by a hundred zeroes:
10,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Google is the name of a large internet company, who afe the largest company whose name is based on a spelling mistake. Folklore tells us that they wanted to name their company after the large number above, and were delighted that the name google.com was still available. It was only later that they discovered the reason it was still available was that they had an incorrect spelling.

2006-09-07 06:26:29 · answer #5 · answered by Ian H 2 · 0 0

10x10^99

2006-09-07 05:07:49 · answer #6 · answered by Jacques Closeau 2 · 0 0

100000

2006-09-07 05:07:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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