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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Googolplex and English
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 20:02:24 -0400 (EDT)

In the absence of penguin baseball and cutesy flash videos, I thought I'd
entertain myself today by following links off into the ether. Thusly I
found these interesting tidbits:

The problem with defending the purity of the English language
is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't
just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets
for new vocabulary.
-- James D. Nicoll
[ROTFL]

The history of googol and a program to print a googolplex:
http://www.fpx.de/fp/Fun/Googolplex/
[This is where my wanderings began. In O'Reilly's _Spidering Hacks_,
there is a reference to the trademark of Google. I have to wonder about
that. I know the correct term for the number 10^100 is 'googol', but I
know for certain that people have been spelling and using it as 'google'
for decades. So where does that leave the trademark?]

And here's a site to better help you understand really big numbers:
http://pages.prodigy.net/jhonig/bignum/indx.html


....yeah, I know; the list is slow lately. /shrug/

;)
Alan




  • [internetworkers] Googolplex and English, Alan MacHett, 05/10/2004

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