Sneaky's Daily Did You Know....? - Google


Google (or Googol) is actually a number, it is a One followed by 100 Zeros as follows:

100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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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