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Googol.com?
In 1938, nine-year-old Milton Sirotta asked his uncle,
a mathematician, what the number one followed by
100 zeros was called. His uncle said there was no
such word. So young Sirotta made up the term googol,
and it was subsequently adopted by the mathematical
community. In 1995, two Stanford University
students developed a new search engine, aiming for
millions of hits. The name they chose: "Google," a play
on the word "googol." We wonder what it would be called
if a nine-year-old named Milton hadn't been so curious.