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Milton Sirotta

Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.

He is known for coining the word 'googol' in 1938 when he was eight years old. His uncle Edward asked him what name he would have given to a "1" followed by 100 zeros and "googol" was then the answer. You could also call the number a 10 duotrigintillion.

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