The Google story of 1e100..What is the secret behind 1e100??? Why is googol associated with 1e100.net?? Why such a wierd name "1e100" ??We represent 10 power or 10 raised to any number as e followed by that number. Now, 1 e 100 means 1 X 10 ^ 100 or 1 followed by 100 zeros after it. When our internet giants Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to name their company, they thought of a name that would mean a number as large as 1 followed by 100 zeros. But, due a mishap, may a communication gap, the company was mistakenly registered or named as Google. A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros in decimal representation. The term was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta (1929 1980), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, when he was nine years old. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination). In binary it would take up 333 bits. A googol has no particular significance in mathematics, but is useful when comparing with other very large quantities such as the number of subatomic particles in the visible universe or the number of possible chess games. Edward Kasner created it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity, and in this role it is sometimes used in teaching mathematics. |
1 googol = 1.0 X 10100 that is 1 e 100 or 1 ^ 100 |
From Googol to Google: The Story Behind Google.Some people think that earth was formed with a big bang, But some thing It came up with a whimper. Thats the story of Google like. A small search engine which has the hold on globe today. As the name says Googol (the number 1 followed by 100 zeros), exactly where it is today. And where they are is on top of the world. As the Reports say Google as a company is now the top search engine company in the world, and is worth more than both Chevrolet and Ford combined. An accomplishment indeed. |