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COLLEGE MASCOTS (cont.): • Attend a game at Louisiana State University and you can catch a glimpse of Mike, a live Bengal tiger, Answer: Dell. the school’s mascot. The current Mike is A theVERY sixth LARGE tiger in the mascot’s history NUMBER and is a Siberian-Bengal mix weighing over • Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 450 lbs., asked but expected reach lbs. byfor fulla he was to cometoup with600 a name adulthood. The first Mike was really named very large number: the numeral one, followed Sheik, and waszeros. purchased in 1935 from the by a hundred He asked his two young Little Rock, Arkansas Zoo for $750, with funds nephews what name they would suggest. raised by collecting a quarter from every LSU • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name student. He lived 20 years. Mike VI (whose out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character name is Barney actuallywas Roscoe) lives in Milton a $3 million, named very popular. chose Barney’s lasthabitat name for the number. 15,000 sq-ft. created especially for the mascot, which a waterfall, •school’s Kasner announced the includes new name for the biga stream, a pond, abundant greenery, rocky number in his next book, altering theand spelling. During home games, opposing •mesas. Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergeyteams Brin must pass by Mike’s cage-on-wheels, which is developed a new internet search engine. Other always the locker room. search situated engines by searched each webpage and ranked them according to how many times toa • University of California at Irvine is home specific term appeared on them, but Page and the whosearch received their name for in BrinAnteaters, designed their engine to search 1965. Two of theand school’s water playthe specific term then find out polo how many ers were great fans of the Johnny Hart comic links there were that led back to that page, strip “B.C.”, which made search its newspaper which resulted in a better engine. debut in 1958. The prehistoric cartoon an • They decided they needed a featured name that anteater snatched ants with reflectedwho how many up websites thea “Zot!” search sound. “Zot!” is They the university’s warengineToday, was searching. took the name of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only cry at college sporting events, and their masthey it slightly, so it ended up being cot is misspelled named Peter the Anteater. spelled exactly the same way the cartoon • Incharacter 1953, Ohio’s of name. AkronWhat’s chose Barney University spelled his last Zippy the kangaroo as their school mascot. it called? (Answer at bottom of page) The name wasn’t chosen because the aniCOMPUTER FACTS mal zips around, but as an abbreviated form •ofIn“Zippers,” 1981 Bill used Gatestosaid, refer“640 to a kb pairofofmemory rubber ought to be enough for anybody.” overshoes manufactured by the city’s BF Go•odrich Moore’s Law states that computer performance Company. Although the team has been doubles every 18 to 24 months, and everdidn’t since known as the Zips since 1925, Zippy 1971, this has been true. come along until 28 years later. • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all started in garages. Thanks Tidbits! Answer: Google,for fromReading googol.
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