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• In a study done in the year 2013, Canadian researchers tested the ingredients in 44 different supplements Answer: Dell. and vitamins. One-third of the products did not contain any amount of the A VERY LARGE NUMBER substances listed on their labels whatsoever. •Many Edward Kasner was awere mathematician. In 1938 of the products nothing more than he was asked to come up with a name for a powdered rice. very large number: the numeral one, followed • The the world’s supply synthetby amajority hundredofzeros. He asked his of two young name theyChina, wouldwhich suggest. icnephews vitaminswhat comes from exports 200,000 tons of vitamins per year. •about Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character • Synthetic vitamin A comes from acetone and named Barney Synthetic was very popular. Milton chose formaldehyde. niacin (vitamin B3) Barney’s last name for the number. is made using a synthetic fiber that is also used •inKasner the new for thethiabig carpetsannounced and conveyor belts.name Synthetic number in his next the spelling. mine (vitamin B1) book, comesaltering from coal tar. All •synthetic Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vitamins are chemically identical to developed a new internet search engine. Other natural vitamins available in food, but natural search engines webpage and vitamins in food searched come in aeach complete package ranked them according to how many times a that also offers other beneficial specific term appeared on them,compounds. but Page and Brin designedsuch their as search to search for • Associations the engine American Cancer the specific term then findHeart out how many Association, the and American Associalinks there were that led back to that page, tion, and the American Diabetes Association which resulted in a better search engine. recommend that healthy people without nu•tritional They decided theywho needed name diet that deficiencies eat a abalanced reflected how many websites the search avoid taking any multivitamins at all. It's not engine was They took the because the searching. vitamins are harmful, it'sname just of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only that they are unnecessary. However, pregnant they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being women folic acid, spelled should exactlytake theextra samedoses wayofthe cartoon elderly women should take a daily dose of calcharacter Barney spelled his last name. What’s cium, and vegans supplement it called? (Answershould at bottom of page)their diet with vitaminCOMPUTER B12. FACTS

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