Monday, October 3, 2016

The name google

Have you ever wondered where they came up with the name for google? well it came from the min=d of a young child. Edward Kasner, a mathematician, came up with a number, 10 with 100 zeros behind it. he didn't know what to call it, so he asked his nephew, who was 9 years old at the time, and he simply said googol. he took this name and decided to keep it. The Nephew went on to invent an even larger number that was 10 with as many zeros as one could write before they could collapse. instead they said it would be 1 with a googol zeroes behind it. eventually as the story goes, Edward created a search ngine and he needed a name that represented a large quantity, so he chose googol, however he mispelled it, and that is where google came to be.

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