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• O.D. McKee and his wife Ruth were newly marriedDell. in the middle of the Great Depression Answer: when they lost their life savings in a bank failA VERY LARGE NUMBER ure. He got a job as a deliveryman for a local • bakery EdwardinKasner was a but mathematician. In 1938 Tennessee, he really wanted to he was asked to come up with a name for a own his own shop. very large number: the numeral one, followed • When a small failing bakery up for sale by a hundred zeros. He askedwent his two young innephews 1934, they used their car as collateral what name they would suggest. and it, living in the back of the store. • bought Nine-year-old Milton suggested a Evenname tually they were able to afford a second shift out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character ofnamed employees, theMilton next several Barneyand wasthey very spent popular. chose decades their Barney’sbuilding last name forbusiness. the number. • • McKee bakedname products which Kasner discovered announced that the new for the big number in his nextwrapped book, altering spelling. were individually wouldthe keep longer and stay fresher than those that were packaged • Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin indeveloped bulk in bags jars, sosearch he adapted a neworinternet engine.candyOther wrapping machines to wrapeach cookies, bars, and and search engines searched webpage ranked them according to how many times a cupcakes. them, but Page and • Inspecific 1960 term they appeared created aonnew brand for their Brin designed their search engine to search for company, naming it after their four-year-old the specific term and then find out how many granddaughter. Forthat the logo they used a picture links there were led back to that page, ofwhich the child wearing her favorite outfit, comresulted in a better search engine. plete with a straw hat with a crease in the brim • They decided they needed a name that where she stepped on it. The individuallyreflected how many websites the search wrapped cakes were nowThey soldtook in multi-packs engine was searching. the name and the company began a period of prodigious of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only growth. they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being spelled exactly way the grew cartoon • Meanwhile, their the littlesame granddaughter up spelled director his last name. What’s tocharacter become Barney the company’s of marketing. it called? (Answer at bottom page) The company named after theofgrandchild now COMPUTER FACTSWhat was the dominates the snack cake market. of their below) • name In 1981 Bill granddaughter? Gates said, “640(Answer kb of memory ought to be enough for anybody.” IT’S A FACT Moore’s Law states thatchocolate computer performance • • The world’s biggest chip cookie doubles every to 24 months, ever since weighed 40,00018pounds and hadand a diameter of 1971, this has been true. 101 feet. It was created in 2003 by The Immac• ulate HP, Google, Microsoft, in andFlat Apple were all Baking Company Rock, North started in garages. Carolina. Answer: from googol. Answer:Google, Little Debbie.
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