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Googol was coined in the 1930s and is attributed to the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.

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The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name.

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