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A2. It was the nephew of mathematician Edward Kastner, Milton Sirotta then aged 9, who came up with the name googolfor 10^100, and then googolplex for 10^googol.

The company name Google was indeed supposed to be googol, but as the founders admit on their website, their spelling wasn't too hot when they came to fill in the company registration form.

A1. A mathematician asked either his son or his nephew (don't recall which) to come up with a word that would mean ten to the power of 100. The lad came up with the word "google".

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The word "Google" is a play on the mathematical term "googol," which is a large number equivalent to 10 raised to the power of 100. The term was first proposed by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner. The name "Google" was chosen by the company's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to represent the vast amount of information the search engine could organize and make accessible.

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