[thechat] Zope on a Rope (or shoestring)

[Luther, Ron]

Hi Lach,

Pretty good memory!

... googol ...nephew...

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57575.html

If I get a chance, I'll have to check my four volume "World of Mathematics" by James Newman for info.  [Honest - it's more interesting than it sounds!]

RonL.
(I think it's more fun when the math folks 'reuse' everyday words.  We end up considering things like an "irregular space". Sounds unpleasant!)

-----Original Message-----
From: Lachlan Cannon [mailto:luminosity at members.evolt.org]

The thing is, they never needed to count that high, so mathematicians get to make numbers up, like the one whose daughter named google. (1x 10^100) I think it was daughter anyway, it was so long ago that I read about the naming of that number.