Googol Coiner
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Mar 19 16:10:27 UTC 2002
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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Associate Librarian for Public Services YALE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
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