Before the search engine Google, there was the word googol. As mathematician Edward Kasner recounts in his book Mathematics and the Imagination, he asked his 9-year-old nephew Milton to coin a word for a huge number, specifically 10 to the 100th power, and that’s what the youngster came up with. A googly, on the other hand, is a type of bowl in cricket. This is part of a complete episode.
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