DO YOU Know The Origin of The Word GOOGOLPLEX?

Question

If you do, and are the first with details about its coming into being down to the identity of the person, gender and approximate age, spill it here and get 10 points!!

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Answer 1

A googol is 10 to the 100th power (which is 1 followed by 100 zeros). In 1938, the term was invented by Milton Sirotta, the 9-year nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked his nephew what he thought such a large number should be called. Such a number, Milton apparently replied after a short thought, could only be called something as silly as...a googol! A googol is larger than the number of elementary particles in the universe, which amount to only 10 to the 80th power.

Milton then proposed the term "googolplex" to be "one, followed by writing zeroes until you got tired". Kasner decided to adopt a more formal definition "because different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have Carnera [a champion boxer] a better mathematician than Dr Einstein, simply because he had more endurance". So the term googolplex became 10 to the googol power.

Note, this is not to be confused with the term "Googleplex" which is the headquarters of a certain somewhat well-known search engine company.

Answer 2

1997 - Larry and Sergey make a decision that the BackRub seek engine demands a brand new identify. After a few brainstorming, they cross with Google—a play at the phrase “googol,” a mathematical time period for the quantity represented via the numeral one million adopted via one hundred zeros. The use of the time period displays their task to prepare a apparently endless quantity of expertise on the net.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

Answer 4

googol is NOT google

Answer 5

Yes thanks, "I DO".