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Originally Posted by omk3
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)
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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.