[Leica] An Aside Regarding Google

[aaron.sandler at duke.edu (Aaron Sandler)]

In 5th grade math I learned that was called 'googolplex'.  Funny what we 
remember.

-Aaron

>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