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TENNIS GREATS (continued): • For five consecutive years from 1976 through 1980, Swedish-born Bjorn Borg was the Men’s Singles champion. Borg was the first Answer: Dell. player to earn more than one million dollars VERYinLARGE in prize A money a singleNUMBER season. When he •retired Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 abruptly at age 26 in 1983, he owned a he was asked to come up with a name for a penthouse in Monte Carlo, a Long Island manveryand largeannumber: thethe numeral one,coast. followed sion, island off Swedish Yet by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young in 2006, the tennis great was nearly bankrupt nephews what name they would suggest. due to poor business ventures. Borg decided •toNine-year-old suggested a name auction off his Milton five Wimbledon trophies and out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character two of his rackets. The trophies were expected named Barney was very popular. Milton chose toBarney’s bring between $350,000 and $525,000 and last name for the number. the rackets, about $25,000 each. Borg’s for• Kasner announced the new name for the big mer rivalinJohn McEnroe talked Borg out of number his next book, altering the spelling. the decision, but unfortunately, Borg had al• Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin ready handed them over to the auction house developed a new internet search engine. Other and had to buy them back. each webpage and search engines searched ranked them according how many times • John McEnroe was welltoknown for his out-a specific term appeared on them, but Page and bursts and temper tantrums on the courts, and Brin designed their search engine to search for was even booed by the crowds for his poor the specific thenand findsuspended out how many behavior. Heterm wasand fined for links there were that led back to that page, shouting objections at umpires’ calls during which resulted in a better search engine. his matches, and once slammed his racket into •aThey decided they after needed a the name that courtside juice cart calling umpire reflected how many websites the search a jerk. Yet this “bad boy” was a #1 player who engine was searching. They took the name took the Men’s Singlesvery title large in 1981, 1983, only and of Edward Kasner’s number, 1984. they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being spelled exactly the same way the cartoon • Three-time Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles champ character Barney spelled his last name. Chris Evert still holds the record for the What’s career it called?percentage (Answer atonbottom of page) winning clay courts of 94.55%. COMPUTERfor FACTS She is also remembered her romance with •fellow In 1981 Bill Gates champ, said, “640 kb of memory Wimbledon six-time winner ought to be enough for anybody.” Jimmy Connors. The couple was engaged in when 19, and they played •1974 Moore’s LawChris stateswas that computer performance doubles every on 18 to months, mixed doubles the24court now and andever then,since but 1971, has itbeen true. the pairthis called quits before the wedding day •arrived. HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all started in garages. Thanks Reading Answer: Google,for from googol. Tidbits!
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