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HONEY (continued):
• Honey is an ancient food, as evidenced by a cave painting unearthed in Spain showing people collecting honey from a bee’s nest. The Answer: Dell. figures are carrying baskets or gourds and are A VERY LARGE NUMBER using ropes to reach the nest. The ancient Ro•mans Edward Kasner wassoa much mathematician. 1938 valued honey that it wasInused as he was asked to come up with a name for a avery formlarge of currency, it to pay taxes. number: using the numeral one,their followed Egyptians sacrificed honey to their gods. The by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young body of Alexander said to have nephews what namethe theyGreat wouldissuggest. been preserved in a coffin full of honey. • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a Sealed name containers honey were foundstrip in King Tut’s out of theoffunnies. A cartoon character tomb that were still edible after more than named Barney was very popular. Milton chose 2,000 years. and Barney’s lastGreeks name for theRomans number. used honey as a natural healing medicine, andfor it was fre• Kasner announced the new name the big quently on wounds to promote healing. numberspread in his next book, altering the spelling. • Because honey is Larry a symbol new Brin year • Sixty years later, Page for andthe Sergey developedtoa new internet search engine. Other according Jewish tradition, Rosh Hashanah search engines searched webpage andto celebrations include appleseach dipped in honey ranked them according to how many times a symbolize a sweet new year. specific term appeared on them, but Page and • There are 64 their calories in engine one tablespoon of Brin designed search to search for honey, compared to sugar at 46 calories, but the specific term and then find out how many because honey is sweeter, tend usepage, less. links there were that led we back to to that which never resulted in a because better search engine. Honey spoils its high acidic levcreates a very low environment, •elThey decided theypHneeded a namemaking that howformany websites itreflected unfavorable bacteria to grow. the Rawsearch honey engine was searching. Theyenzymes took thethat name contains all the pollen and are of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only destroyed by heat in processed honey. Filtered theyprocessed misspelledhoney it slightly, so it ended up being and will remain liquid much spelled exactly the same way the cartoon longer, while raw honey crystalizes quickly. character Barney spelled his last name. What’s • It’s believed that honey, with its antioxidant it called? (Answer at bottom of page) and anti-bacterial properties is a COMPUTER FACTS powerful aid to the immune system. Many claim it improves • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory digestion andenough soothes throats. But as benought to be forsore anybody.” eficial as honey can be, it should not be fed to • Moore’s Law states that computer performance infants than18one year old. Honey cansince condoublesless every to 24 months, and ever tain a bacterium called 1971, this has been true.Clostridium botulinum, which can cause infant botulism, a condition • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all that can in cause paralysis and even death. started garages. Answer: Google, from googol.
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