Did anyone else notice the Google reference on last nights Simpsons? They went to a movie theater complex called "Googolplex".
limbo
5:07 pm on Mar 15, 2004 (gmt 0)
Havent seen that one - but was mentioned on ER last week, the doctors were accused of 'Googling' each other instead of working.
You know it is more than a word, more than a brand even, when it becomes a verb!
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5:42 pm on Mar 16, 2004 (gmt 0)
Actually "Googolplex" is a number. I don't know why it's called that or anything, but I'm sure you can find more information on it by using Google.
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MarkJH
11:00 pm on Mar 16, 2004 (gmt 0)
"The American mathematician Edward Kasner once asked his nine-year-old nephew to invent a name for a very large number, ten to the power of one hundred; and the boy called it a googol. He thought this was a number to overflow people's minds, being bigger than anything that can ever be put into words. Another mathematician then shot back with googolplex, and defined it to be 10 to the power of googol."
:)
Vampyre
10:57 pm on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)
The theater complex on The Simpsons has been called the Googolplex since at least 1992 (episode 8F19, "Colonel Homer"). Long before the search engine even existed.
