Googol for Kids: What a Googol Is and Who Named It

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

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