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Old 02-25-2007, 03:19 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
In a bizarre side note, has anyone ever noticed that "google" as a word meanly an approximation of infinity is flagged as a misspelling, but the at "Google" as a company is a perfectly cromulent word?
That's an interesting observation! I never thought of it as meaning infinity, however, because googol in math means a specific number... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol
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