Google turns 13 today!
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| Google in 1998 |
Trivia: Google is a misspelled version of googol, a term for an extremely large number. Specifically 1 followed by 100 zeros. (Which is why Google's search results are displayed with an increasing number of o's at the bottom. A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol of zeros. Googleplex is the name of Google's headquarters.
More trivia, the term googol was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta, the 9 year old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner to represent a large number that was still finite. Initially described as 1 followed by as many zeros you can write before you get tired.
A googol is officially "ten duotrigintillion" on the math short-scale (million, billion, trillion type nomenclature)
**All information is, of course, found on Google.com **
A googol is officially "ten duotrigintillion" on the math short-scale (million, billion, trillion type nomenclature)
**All information is, of course, found on Google.com **
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