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Googol for Kids: What a Googol Is and Who Named It
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The story of the googol for kids: how nine-year-old Milton Sirotta named the number one followed by a hundred zeros for his uncle, mathematician Edward Kasner, around 1920. • Why a googol is bigger than the number of atoms in the known universe • The even bigger googolplex that Milton dreamed up • How the word spread and gave a famous search engine its name • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear...