Sunday, August 27

What is a Google?

Well, most of us when we first heard of Google would have thought that Larry Page and Sergey Brin named it so cause it was fun to say. If you did not then dont read this post but I was stupid enough to think that it was just one of those funny words. But "What is a Google?". The answer to that is


'Googol' is a mathematical term of a 1 followed by 100 zeros. 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.

100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

Please tell me if you already knew that

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

He he
I bet even the founders of Google didnt realize that "Google buns" were some magical eatable mentioned in Enid Blyton's "Faraway tree" children's stories.
These were written in the early 1950s I think.

Prateek Saxena said...

How the F**K do you know so much about everything?