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• After World War II, Leslie and Rodney went into business together in England, combining their first names to form Lesney Products. Answer: Dell. They bought surplus die-casting machines A VERY LARGE NUMBER and began turning out industrial parts. Later • they Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 hired Jack Odell, who began designing he was asked to come up with a name foraf-a die casts for toy vehicles, modeling them very large number: the numeral one, followed ter a line of toy trucks called Dinky Toys. by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young • In 1950 the company was would just about to release nephews what name they suggest. toy wedding Milton coach when disastera struck: • aNine-year-old suggested name the Korean War began. Zinc, in the out of the funnies. A cartoonessential strip character die casting process, waspopular. no longer available named Barney was very Milton chose Barney’sitlast for the because wasname needed for number. the war. The wedcoach was moth-balled company • ding Kasner announced the new and namethefor the big struggled, turning out tin toys instead. number in his next book, altering the spelling. • Sixty years Larry Sergey Brin • In 1952 the later, ban on zincPage was and lifted. Just then developed a new internet search engine. Other Britain’s King George VI died, and his daughsearch engines searchedhim each webpage and ter Elizabeth succeeded as queen. Lesney ranked them according to how many times a decided to transform the wedding coach into specific term appeared on them, but Page and aBrin coronation and the new to toy was redesignedcoach, their search engine search for leased just before Elizabeth ascended the the specific term and then find out how many throne. links there were that led back to that page, which resulted in aofbetter search was engine. • The first version the coach 15 inch• es They neededOdell’s a name that longdecided and theythey sold well. daughter reflected how many websites the search wanted to take one to school for show-andengine searching. They name tell, but was the teacher would onlytook allowthe children of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only to bring items that were small enough to fit they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being into a standard box of matches. Odell subsespelled exactly the same way the cartoon quently a coronation was characterdesigned Barney spelled his lastcoach name.that What’s less than two inches long. The company sold it called? (Answer at bottom of page) over a million. They shrank all of their toy COMPUTER FACTS vehicles to this size, selling them for 40 cents. • They In 1981 Bill Gatespopular. said, “640 of memory were wildly And kb because of the ought to be enough for anybody.” teacher's prohibition against toys bigger than • aMoore’s Law states thatvehicles computerwere performance matchbox, the tiny dubbed doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since Matchbox toys. 1971, this has been true. • Over 12,000 different have been • HP, Google, Microsoft,models and Apple were reall leased over the years. The company is now started in garages. owned Google, by Mattel. Answer: from googol.
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