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The term was coined in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta (1911–1981), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. [1] He may have been inspired by the contemporary comic strip character Barney Google. [2] Kasner popularized the concept in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination. [3]
Sagan gave an example that if the entire volume of the observable universe is filled with fine dust particles roughly 1.5 micrometers in size (0.0015 millimeters), then the number of different combinations in which the particles could be arranged and numbered would be about one googolplex. [5] [6]
GOOG-411. GOOG-411 (or Google Voice Local Search) was a telephone service launched by Google in 2007, that provided a speech-recognition -based business directory search, and placed a call to the resulting number in the United States or Canada. [1] The service was accessible a toll-free telephone number.
Guess 2/3 of the average. In game theory, " guess 2 3 of the average " is a game where players simultaneously select a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive. The winner of the game is the player (s) who select a number closest to 2 3 of the average of numbers chosen by all players. [1]
The name Google is a misspelling of Googol, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information. In August 2024, it was held that Google had an illegal monopoly over Internet search engines.
List of Google Easter eggs. A Pacman related interactive Google Doodle from 2010 will be shown to users searching for "google pacman" or "play pacman". The American technology company Google has added Easter eggs into many of its products and services, such as Google Search, YouTube, and Android since the 2000s. [1][2]
Hot 100 number ones of 1987. Bon Jovi (pictured) earned their second Hot 100 number-one single with "Livin' on a Prayer", which stayed at the top position for four straight weeks. These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1987. The longest running number-one singles of 1987 are "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi and "Faith" by George ...
List of. Billboard. Hot 100 number ones of 1968. Otis Redding became the first to have a #1 hit posthumously after his death in 1967 with "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". Simon & Garfunkel scored a #1 hit in 1968 with "Mrs. Robinson". Marvin Gaye scored his first #1 as a solo artist with "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" in 1968 and 1969.