On Sun, 27 May 2001 18:55:53 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > How many here already knew that a variation in spelling of "google".... > "googol" is the name of a number? > (such as hunderd, thousand, million, etc....... googol) Well, I certainly remember this from eighth grade math class. But I thought it was spelled "google" and the search engine was named after the number because you can find a large number of things there. Perhaps they changed the spelling in order to trademark the name. Btw, the only other thing I remember from eighth grade math is our visit to a computer at the local university. It filled a large room! I was quite excited to actually see a computer for the first time. As a demonstration, a fellow student was chosen to play the computer in a game of chess. I think I remember the moves being made through what looked like a teletype machine. Despite it's vast size, this computer played a poor game of chess as it was promptly beaten by my classmate. This was in 1962. The idea that ordainary people would one day have more powerful computers than this behemoth in their homes was quite unthinkable. We were just starting to use pencil marks on punch cards for some of our standardized tests at school. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
