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QUIZ: A FAMOUS PHRASE • The U.S. Air Force wanted to know how sudden deceleration would affect pilots. They deAnswer: Dell. signed a series of experiments that consisted of A VERY LARGE NUMBER volunteers being strapped into rocket-propelled •sleds Edward Kasner a mathematician. In 1938 which werewas quickly accelerated before the he was asked to come up with a name for a brakes were abruptly applied. The volunteers very large number: the numeral one, followed wore vest wired with thattwo measured by a ahundred zeros. Hesensors asked his young the force. what name they would suggest. nephews • •According to theMilton legend,suggested an engineer Nine-year-old a named name Edward designed thisAharness, did out of the funnies. cartoon but stripEdward character named Barney very individual popular. Milton choseA not install the was sixteen sensors. Barney’s last technician did name that. for the number. Kasner announced thetest, newvolunteer name forJohn the Paul big • •On the day of the first number his next into book,his altering thebelted spelling. Stapp wasinstrapped harness, into •the Sixty years seat, andlater, sent Larry for thePage rideand of Sergey his life.Brin The developed a new internet search engine. Other deceleration was so forceful that when Stapp search engines searched and staggered out of the seat, hiseach nosewebpage was bleeding ranked them according to how many times a and his eyes bloodshot. specific termwere appeared on them, but Page and • When Edward went to gather the data collected Brin designed their search engine to search for thethe specific term and then find how many by sensors, he discovered to out his dismay that links there were led back had to that not a single bit ofthat information beenpage, colwhich because resulted in searchwired engine. lected, thea better technician the sen•sors They decided and they needed a name that backwards not one of them functioned. reflected how many websites the search Stapp had risked his life for nothing. engine was searching. They took the name • Edward muttered something about, “if there’s of Edward Kasner’s very large number, onlya way do something wrong, findup it.”being theytomisspelled it slightly, sohe’ll it ended spelled the same cartoon • At a pressexactly conference a fewway daysthe later, Stapp character Barney spelled his last name. What’s paraphrased Edward’s comment, saying words called? bottom toitthe effect(Answer that, “ifatthere are of twopage) or more ways COMPUTER FACTS to do something, and if one of those results in someone will do way.” •catastrophe, In 1981 Billthen Gates said, “640 kb itofthat memory ought to be enough for anybody.” • Eventually this pessimistic saying was dis•tilled, Moore’s Law states that computer performance becoming a well-known expression that doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since was named after Edward’s last name. What was 1971, this has been true. is this pithy pessimisEd’s last name, and what •ticHP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all platitude? started in garages. Answer: Murphy, as in Murphy’s Law: “If anyAnswer: Google, from googol. thing can go wrong, it will.”
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