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HOT DOGS (continued): • In a poll sponsored by the American Meat Institute and the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, hamburgers ranked #1 among AmerAnswer: Dell. ican adults as the top food item for summerA VERY LARGE time grilling. Some 32% ofNUMBER people polled said • they Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 go for a burger above all else at backyard he was asked to come up with a name for a barbecues. Another 19% named hot dogs, very large number: the numeral one, followed making it the second place choice. Chicken by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young was third, followed by steak. nephews what name they would suggest. • • In a similar poll,Milton mustardsuggested ranked #1 as faNine-year-old a the name vorite hot dog topping, with 30% of people out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character choosing it above other toppings. Another named Barney wasall very popular. Milton chose 22% picked came in second Barney’s lastketchup, name for which the number. by chili and onions. • place, Kasnerfollowed announced the new name for the big number in his next book, altering the spelling. LOST DOG Sixty later, Will LarryKeller Page and and Paula SergeyPendBrin • • In Juneyears of 2002, developed a new internet search engine. Other leton were driving the Oscar Mayer Wienersearch engines searched each webpage and mobile the country a yeartour ranked across them according to on how manylong times a of barbecue cook-offs and charity events. In specific term appeared on them, but Page and Washington, gotengine lost and ended for up Brin designedD.C., their they search to search going down a road near the Pentagon that is the specific term and then find out how many links there thatwith led six back to thatwheels. page, off limits to were vehicles or more which resulted in a better search engine. The road was closed to truck traffic following Sept. 11 attacks fear someone • the They decided they forneeded a namewould that reflected howbomb manyclose websites search drive a truck to the the Pentagon. engine was searching. They took theover name The Wienermobile was quickly pulled by of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only troopers who expected the wurst, and the drivtheyofmisspelled slightly, so it ended being ers the giant ithot dog were grilled.upTroopspelled exactly the same way the cartoon ers found Barney no bomb in thehis back the hot dog, character spelled lastofname. What’s which was(Answer packed with boxesofofpage) Wienerwhisit called? at bottom tles, Wienermobile Hot Wheels, Wienie bean COMPUTER FACTS bag toys, and a karaoke machine featuring • Wiener In 1981songs. Bill Gates said, “640 kb of terrorists memory Apparently not many ought to be enough for anybody.” pick a 27-foot long bright red vehicle shaped • like Moore’s that computer performance a hotLaw dogstates to pull off a terrorist attack. doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since When it was determined that they posed no 1971, this has been true. threat to national security, the Wienermobile • was HP, released Google,and Microsoft, were all the driverand wasApple directed to the started in garages. proper road. They did not receive a ticket. Answer: Google, from googol.

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