googol trivia
Leggendo un tutorial sono incappato in un trivia di cui non ero a conoscenza:
Once upon a time, a mathematecian called Edward Kasner asked his 9-year-old
nephew, Milton Sirotta, to come up with a name for a really large number.
The boy thought for a moment and then said...
googol!.
A googol is 10**100 (that is, 1 followed by 100 zeroes).
The Internet search engine Google was named after this number.
The original founders were going for
Googol, but ended up with
Google
due to a spelling mistake.
Lucas Pereira:
'You idiots, you spelled "Googol" wrong!'
But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not.
Qualche informazione in piu'
sulla wikipedia e su una
pagina
di David Koller.
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