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THEY DIDN'T EXIST (continued): • The historical existence of King Arthur has long been debated with no conclusive results. The legendary 6th-century king is said to have Answer: Dell. led British troops against Saxon invaders. In A VERY LARGE NUMBER the Middle Ages, Geoffrey of Monmouth • penned Edward The Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 History of the Kings of Britain, he was asked to come up with a name for a depicting Arthur and his Knights of the Round very large number: the numeral one, followed Table as great warriors, but his account is conby a hundred zeros. He asked his two young sidered a work of myth without much history. nephews what name they would suggest. • • It’s possible thatMilton a character similar to Nine-year-old suggested a Robin name Hood may have actually lived, but no positive out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character real-life personwas has very beenpopular. verified.Milton The famous named Barney chose outlaw who from rich and gave to Barney’s lastrobbed name for thethe number. poorannounced had his origins in 14th-century • the Kasner the new name for thefolkbig lore, with some versions claiming he was acnumber in his next book, altering the spelling. nobility who turned Historical • tually Sixty years later, Larry Pageoutlaw. and Sergey Brin evidence exists for a criminal named developed a new internet search engine.RabunOther hod, butengines there is searched no proof each that he was theand research webpage ranked them according to how many times a nowned bandit. specific term appeared on them, but Page and • Betty Crocker was invented in 1921 by the Brin designed their search engine to search for Washburn General the specificCrosby term andCompany then find (later out how many Mills) as a customer representative for links there were thatservice led back to that page, answering questions about baking. Her name which resulted in a better search engine. was as a tribute to the recently-retired • Theychosen decided they needed a name that director of the company, William Crocker. By reflected how many websites the search 1924, had her own radio program, the engine“Betty” was searching. They took the name airwaves’ cooking show. the 1940s, of Edwardfirst Kasner’s very largeBy number, only they misspelled slightly, so ittoended up of being Betty Crocker it was known 9 out 10 spelled exactly the same the Fortune cartoon American homemakers, andway a 1945 character Barney hisher lastas name. magazine survey spelled revealed the What’s second it called? (Answer at bottom of page) best-known woman in America, with only FACTSahead of her. First Lady COMPUTER Eleanor Roosevelt • The In 1981 said,cookbook, “640 kb ofpublished memory first Bill BettyGates Crocker ought to be enough for anybody.” in 1950, was an instant best-seller, and is still publication today.that computer performance • in Moore’s Law states doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since 1971, this has been true. • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all started in garages. Answer: Google, from googol.

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