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What is Googol The Number? How Is Related to Google?
The name Google is related to Googol.
Googol is 1 plus 100 zeros. The name googol and googolplex were originally coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner a famous American mathematician.
What does Google mean?
Google is a misspelling of a real life mathematical term, Googol.
The name “Google” actually came from a graduate student at Stanford named Sean Anderson.
Anderson suggested the word “googolplex” during a brainstorming session, and Larry Page replied with the shortest “googol.”
The name of Google is derived from the number googol, which is equal to the number 1 followed by 100 zeros (1 x 10¹⁰⁰).
And Backrub was the original name for the search engine until Sergey Brin and Larry Page rebranded the company as Google, Inc.
Googol is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
Googolplex is the number 10googol, or equivalently, 10(10100). Written out in ordinary decimal notation, it is 1 followed by 10100 zeroes, that is, a 1 followed by a googol zeroes.
The term was coined in 1920 by 9 year old Milton Sirotta (1911–1981), nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner.
Kasner is perhaps best remembered today for introducing the term “googol.” In order to pique the interest of children, Kasner sought a name for a very large number: one followed by 100 zeros. On a walk in the New Jersey Palisades with his nephews, Milton (1911–1981) and Edwin Sirotta, Kasner asked for their ideas.
Nine year old Milton suggested “googol”.
A googol is 10100, or 1 followed by 100 zeroes!
Googol is a mathematical term to describe a huge quantity.
Googol is a quantity that surpasses even the number of hydrogen atoms in the observable universe, is a number dating back to the mid 1900s and is still used by mathematicians today.
Googol in graphics.
This drawing from Yumi, a 7 years old girl gave me the idea for this article.
