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How did googol get its name?
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Mathematician Edward Kasner [2] asked his nephew Milton Sirotta (who was 9 years old at the time) to invent a name for the number 1 with a hundred zeros written after it, and the nephew chose the name « googol ». It was first suggested that a googolplex should be 1, followed by writing zeros until you got tired.
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