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Nov
Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number; 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 That’s 'one followed by a hundred zeros' A fitting name for a search engine that relies on complex mathematics to find exactly what people want. A googol has its use in comparing with other very larger numbers such as the number of chess moves that are hypothetically possible. Edward Kasner used it to illustrate the...
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