May 17, 2004

Have your Google people talk to my 'googol' people
In the late 1930s, noted mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was asked to come up with a name for an extraordinarily large number. While on a walk one day, he asked his 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, if he had any ideas.

"Googol," the youngster replied.
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