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Old 06-04-2010, 01:28 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by omk3 View Post
Computer words are one good example of american words entering the greek language. We also 'google'(that's not even a word, I know, but we even use it with greek verb inflections)
Google comes from "googol," the mathematical term; it means 1 with a hundred zeros.

A googolplex is 1-with-a-googol-zeros."

I knew both of those terms from childhood and instantly understood what "Google" was trying to claim about its search engine.

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