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Episode 100: Google
Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast
English - August 21, 2021 16:36 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 220 ratingsLanguage Learning Education History etymology language linguistics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Before Google was the name of one of the world's biggest tech companies, "googol" was an obscure math term that meant "ten to the one hundredth power". Five decades before the founding of Google, the word "googol" emerged spontaneously out of a conversation between an American mathematician and his nephew.
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