[Leica] An Aside Regarding Google

[bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)]

There is also the super-googol, which is 10 to the googolth power.

-dan c.

At 05:15 PM 23-09-04 -0600, Kit McChesney wrote:
>Well, I found this reference (in Dictionary.com--clearly not the OED, but if
>'google' is in the Oxford, we are in trouble!)
>
>--
>
>Google: The World-Wide Web search engine that indexes the greatest number of
>web pages - over two billion by
>December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this index in less
>than a second.
>
>The site's name is apparently derived from "googol", but note the difference
>in spelling.
>
>The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
>by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep
>Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously
>foward, "a greater analyst than the
>Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which
>can calculate the trajectory of every single
>dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?" 
>
>--
>
>Okay, then! 
>
>Kit
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Buzz Hausner
>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:14 PM
>To: 'Leica Users Group'
>Subject: [Leica] An Aside Regarding Google
>
>If my sometimes faulty memory serves me this evening, I recall that
>"Google" is actually a corruption of the fanciful number, a "Googol,"
>representing ten to the one hundredth power.  I do believe that the word
>was coined by a nine-year-old, but that could be apocryphal.  I am not a
>mathematician; perhaps Brian Reid or one of the more numerate among us
>might be able to inform us fully.
>
>       Buzz Hausner
>
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