Definition:Googol/Linguistic Note
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Linguistic Note on Googol
The word googol was coined by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.
Beware the mis-spelling google, which is the name of an internet search engine.
Sources
- 1940: Edward Kasner and James Newman: Mathematics and the Imagination
- 1962: Clifton Fadiman: The Mathematical Magpie: Introduction
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $10^{100}$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $10^{100}$