Word: googol
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...once was Kasner's pupil. Mathematics is one of the hardest of all sciences to popularize, and the Kasner-Newman book is remarkably successful-perhaps because Dr. Kasner has had a lot of practice talking about mathematics to children. He is the man who gave the world the "googol" and the "googolplex" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). The googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros-a number greater than that of all the atoms in the universe. The googolplex is very much larger: it is the number 1 followed by so many zeros that the number of zeros...