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The number "googol" was named by a 9-year-old.

Mathematician Edward Kasner's nephew Milton Sirotta coined the name in 1920 for 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's name is a deliberate misspelling of it.

Source: Wikipedia: Googol

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