google and back to the future

[ironn_]

watching back to the future 3 today i came to a part where they speak
of our lovely "service". obviosuly not about it, but they made a
refernce to its name. dr emmet brown was talking about his fiancee,
clara, and said "clara is unique, she is one in a millon, one in a
billon, one in a googleplex". i know what googleplex means, and that
it´s the reason for google´s name, but it was funny to listen to this
word. :-P

jon

[Derek]

what's the definition of googleplex?

[Luis Amador]

A "google" is the number 10^100. A "googleplex" is an even larger number
10^[(10)^100].

[Fuzzy Logic]

Actually, a google is the reason for Google's name. A google is
10^100 (1 followed by 100 zeros).

A googleplex is 1 followed by a google zeros. That's the largest
number with a common name.

Fuzzy
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[Cameron Bulock]

Actually, a googal is 10^100. Google is a play on the word googal.

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Cameron Bulock

[Derek]

ooh thanks for the little lesson luis. i didn't know that... im trying
to remember if one of my past teachers mentioned that before.

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

Completely out of topic to this subject, but did anyone else notice a
rather irregular ordering in this thread?
I see them in this order :

author --- time
ironn -------------------- 6:43pm (4 hours ago)
Derek------------------- 7:06pm (4 hours ago)
Luis Amador -------- 8:57pm (2 hours ago)
Fuzzy Logic -------- 8:38pm (2 1/2 hours ago)
Cameron Bulock - 10:16pm (56 minutes ago)
Derek ------------------ 9:05pm (2 hours ago)

I would understand a sort of delay between Luis and Fuzzy Logic's
emails, since they're only 19 minutes apart.. but Cameron's and
Derek's are 1 hour apart. If they were using highly congested
mailservers on different parts of the world, I might accept it.. but
they were both using gmail's servers, judging by the raw email
headers. Malfunction within Gmail's server farm? Can't think how it
would confuse the threading system they were both delivered normally.
What do you think?

Fanis

[Fuzzy Logic]

Huh? The word is googol, not googal. Sorry for my original typo.

Fuzzy
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*Lewis Cass {1782-1866 American Politician}

[Derek]

that is werid.. i wonder what the reason for the delay in timestamps was?

[Kishyr Ramdial]

> Actually, a googal is 10^100. Google is a play on the word googal.

It's actually Googol:
http://www.googol.com/goog_def.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

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[Ashish Poddar]

well this thing was earlier discussed by me too when i had noticed
such a thing but the reason that came up then was the difference in
time zones from where the mails were actually posted... so what this
indicates is basically

author --- time
ironn -------------------- 6:43pm (4 hours ago)
Derek------------------- 7:06pm (4 hours ago)
Luis Amador -------- 8:57pm (2 hours ago)
Fuzzy Logic -------- 8:38pm (2 1/2 hours ago)
Cameron Bulock - 10:16pm (56 minutes ago)
Derek ------------------ 9:05pm (2 hours ago)

ironn, derek, luis, cameron are in same time zone and fuzzy is in a
time zone with 1 hour difference (lagging) the minor differences in
minutes might be due to server delays....

Ashish.

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[Fanis Hatzidakis]

Nope. Gmail cares about timezones, and processes them nicely. If you
do "More options" you'll see the offset from GMT is always included.
Gmail computes the "3 hours ago" part based on when it was received -
that's what's so great about it, there's no confusion. I can only
assume there was some huge queue up between Gmail's own delivery
system, and thus not worth discussing much more (unless it's repeated
multiple times).

Fanis

[Mark G]

but with my gmail all i see is "1 day ago" for this conversation. :-D

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Mark L. Gamis
University of the Philippines