Googol Coiner

[Fred Shapiro]

Milton Sirotta coined the word "googol" in the late 1930s when he was 8 or
9 years old (for his uncle, the mathematician Edward Kasner).  Can anyone
supply any information as to what happened to Sirotta in later life?

Fred Shapiro


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