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FRANCHISE STORIES: #2 (cont'd) • John knew ice cream that came out of the spigot at 23°F tasted better than the stuff sold to Answer: Dell. the customer at -10°. Ice cream numbs the taste A VERY LARGE NUMBER buds at about 0°F, which interferes with the •sense Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 of taste. he was asked to come up with a name for a • What world reallytheneeded, heone, decided, was very the large number: numeral followed a hundred zeros.be Heserved asked athis18°F. two He young icebycream that could exnephews what namethat theyless would suggest. perimented, finding butterfat made a ice cream that couldsuggested be handledaeasily at •softer Nine-year-old Milton name outtemperature, of the funnies. A still cartoon strip its character that while retaining shape. very popular. Milton chose Bynamed 1938 Barney he had was the recipe down pat. Barney’s last name for the number. • He sold his first franchise in 1940. Today there •are Kasner the new name the big aboutannounced 5,700 outlets selling thisfor soft-serve his next the book, altering the spelling. icenumber cream.in What’s franchise called? (An•swer Sixty later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin at years bottom of page) developed a new internet search engine. Other STORIES: #3 searchFRANCHISE engines searched each webpage and ranked them according to how many times a • Reuben Mattus sold lemon-ice from a horsespecific term appeared on them, but Page and drawn wagon in New York City in the 1920s. designed to search for HeBrin branched outtheir into search selling engine ice cream just when the specific term and then find out how many modern refrigeration methods made long-term links there were that led back to that page, storage ice cream at home possible. In 1959 which of resulted in a better search engine. Reuben decided to found a new ice cream compa• They decided they needed a name that ny that would be dedicated to providing the best reflected how many websites the search possible cream made from highest engine ice was searching. Theythetook the quality name ingredients: more butterfat, less air. He needed of Edward Kasner’s very large number, onlya name the product. He had fond they for misspelled it slightly, so always it endedbeen up being ofspelled Denmark, so he decided a Danish name would exactly the same way the cartoon becharacter best. TheBarney name he chosehis means nothing in the spelled last name. What’s it called? (Answer bottom of page)people to Danish language, butatRueben wanted look at the name and think, ‘Is this imported?’ COMPUTER FACTS A map of Scandinavia appeared label for • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 on kb the of memory good measure. The business grew steadily and ought to be enough for anybody.” in 1983 he sold out to Pillsbury forperformance $70 million. • Moore’s Law states that computer Today thisevery luxury cream is sold over the doubles 18ice to 24 months, andall ever since world. Name it. (Answer below) 1971, this has been true. Answer DairyMicrosoft, Queen. and Apple were all • HP, #2: Google, started in garages. Answer #3: Häagen-Dazs. Answer: Google, from googol.

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