OT Learned Something

[She in PA]

I couldn't sleep last night. I there is a talk show on KDKA radio out of
Pittsburgh,they ask lots of unusual questions for you to try to answer. Back
in I think they said 1938 or 1939 a nine year old boy asked his uncle a
mathematician what you called a 1 with one hundred zeros after it.His uncle
said there was no such word. The little boy said he would make one up and he
did. He called it Google. The word stuck and was used by mathematician. Then
years later two men were starting a search engine site and needed a name and
they were hoping to get lots and lots of hits so they decided to call it
Google.

I found that interesting. I learn lots of thinks when I can't sleep. LOL

She in PA

[AliceW]

The numeric version is actually a "googol" but the guys spelled it a
different way to make it easier to spell and remember I think. Here is a
link to an interesting page about googols.

http://www.fpx.de/fp/Fun/Googolplex/

This would certainly put me to sleep!

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[CNY/VAstitcher]

NOt sure where they got this info, but when I was in 4th grade, I
learned that a "google" was a 1 with 1 MILLION zeros after it...it was
printed in our mathbook and took 2 pages to get all the zeros written

Larisa

[Heather Michna]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one
hundred zeroes. The term was coined in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta,
nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner announced the concept
in his book Mathematics and the Imagination.

Writing out a googol
A googol can be written in conventional notation, as follows:

1 googol = 10100 = 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
000
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Relation to -illion number names
Using the short scale, a googol is equal to ten duotrigintillion. Using the
long scale, it is equal to ten thousand sexdecillion (or sedecillion), or
ten sexdecilliard/sedecilliard.

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The shrinking googol
Back when it was named in 1938, the googol was undeniably large, and from a
physical standpoint, a googol of anything would not fit in the known
universe. However, with the invention of fast computers and fast algorithms,
computation with numbers the size of a googol has become routine. For
example, even the difficult problem of prime factorization is now fairly
accessible for 100 digit numbers.

The largest number that can be represented by a typical pocket calculator
for high school or scientific use is slightly less than a googol (e.g.
9.9999999 E+99, i.e. 9.99999991099, or 0.99999999 googol). However, some
models allow exponents larger than 99. (Note that since often these numbers
are stored as floating point numbers, only an approximation of the actual
number is stored and not the entire number.)

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Trivia
a.. Googol was the answer to the million-pound question on Who Wants to Be
a Millionaire when Major Charles Ingram attempted to defraud the quiz show
on 10 September 2001.
a.. If we drew a regular polygon with a googol sides that was 1027 times
the size of the known universe, it would still appear circular, even on the
scale of a Planck length.
a.. A googol is greater than the number of particles in the known
universe, which has been variously estimated from 1072 up to 1087.
a.. A little googol is 2^100 ~= 1.267*10^30 and a little googolplex is
2^(2^100) ~= 10^(3.8*10^29).
a.. 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. Lawrence E. Page: "Lucas Pereira: 'You idiots, you
spelled "Googol" wrong!' But this was good, because google.com was available
and googol.com was not. Now most people spell 'Googol' 'Google', so it
worked out OK in the end."
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Googolhedron
A googolhedron is a three-dimensional shape bounded by 10100 similar
polygons. Because of this great many number of polygons, this shape would
look very much like a sphere. Having this many sides or facets would make it
smoother than any man made object. There can, however, never actually be a
googolhedron because there are not a googol particles in the universe.

[~KK in BC~]

apparently way more math info than my flu bogged brain can digest right
now........

I have enough problems with 1/4" seams I don't need any 0's added to my
brain mush thanks

~KK in BC~ who is battling the flu and hasn't even the energy to read a
quilt mag let alone stitch anything........
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