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Google is the world’s most used search engine and is likely a website you visit multiple times a day. However, what many don’t know is that behind the name lies a fascinating meaning. After all, when ...

James Newman (1907-1966) was the kind of bad father who makes for good reading. He was a mathematical genius, the man who popularized the terms “googol” and “googolplex” in a 1940 book, written with ...

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