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IPOs bring out the bloodsuckers
In the late 1930s, Edward Kasner was asked to come up with the name for a large number; as legend has it, he asked his nine-year old nephew, who said "googol," and Kasner's 1940 book "Mathematics and the Imagination" popularized the term for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeroes.
Can you guess where this is going....Yup, Ted Frank at Overlawyered continues:
Kasner's great-niece, Peri Fleisher, is going public herself, complaining that her family hasn't been compensated for Google's choice of a name, and "exploring" the possibility of legal action.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on May 18, 2004 at 07:13 AM in Law | Permalink
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