Saturday, May 17, 2008

Jeopardy Question - What's a Google?

This post is for when you go on Jeopardy and this is your question. When you win a percentage of your winnings must go to me. :)



Woot!

From: http://www.google.com/



What's a Google?

"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

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