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Daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898). Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 [a] – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
To put in perspective the size of a googol, the mass of an electron, just under 10 −30 kg, can be compared to the mass of the visible universe, estimated at between 10 50 and 10 60 kg. [5] It is a ratio in the order of about 10 80 to 10 90, or at most one ten-billionth of a googol (0.00000001% of a googol).
As per the writer Samaresh Basu, Gogol's father Samiresh Chatterjee, was a fan of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol and hence, named his only child as Gogol Chatterjee. Gogol's real name is Uday Kumar Chatterjee. [2]
The Oxford English Dictionary comments that googol and googolplex are "not in formal mathematical use". Usage of names of large numbers Some names of large numbers, such as million , billion , and trillion , have real referents in human experience, and are encountered in many contexts, particularly in finance and economics.
Gogol (film series), Russian series of fantasy-horror films; Gogol (Samaresh Basu), fictional Indian child detective Gogol, Indian film series based on the character; General Gogol, character in the James Bond series
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, originally Take Barney Google, for Instance, [1] [note 1] is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Billy DeBeck.Since its debut on June 17, 1919, [3] the strip has gained a large international readership, appearing in 900 newspapers in 21 countries.
A leak from Fandom's Community Council was posted to Reddit's /r/Wikia subreddit in August 2018, confirming that Fandom would be migrating all wikis from the wikia.com domain, to fandom.com in early 2019, as part of a push for greater adoption of Fandom's wiki-specific applications on both iOS and Android's app ecosystems. The post was later ...
The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol", [98] [99] which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Page and Brin write in their first paper on PageRank : [ 20 ] "We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10 100 and fits well with our goal of building very ...