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[Laurence Horn]

At 2:56 PM -0500 1/28/11, victor steinbok wrote:
>If Kasner's story is correct in the other aspect--that Sirotta was
>nine, that does not leave a lot of room.
>
>Kasner's and Sirotta's relatives sued Google a few years ago, if
>anyone's forgotten already. The claims were confused and ultimately
>unsuccessful.

Right; I keep getting that lawsuit confused with the one filed by
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googly eyes.

LH

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>VS-)
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>On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>  As I have posted before on this list, the first known usage of
>>"googol" in print was in Jan. 1938.  So probably Sirotta coined the
>>term before 1938.
>>
>>  Fred Shapiro
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