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| | Strange but True: Cincinnati.Com |
 | | A. When mathematicians Edward Kasner and James Newman introduced the "googol," the word caught on, says Isaac Asimov in his "On Numbers." "Personally, I think it's an awful name, but the 9-year-old nephew of one of them invented it, and what could a proud uncle do?" |
 | | A googol's the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, or ten duotrigintillion in American nomenclature. |
 | | Even national economies are beggared by such a count: The U.S. gross national product is around $10 trillion, or only 13 zeros. |
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