He was the nephew of well-known mathematician Edward Kasner. The boy coined the term "googol" to name the number that is ten to the one-hundredth power. The search engine is spelled differently, though its name was inspired by the number.
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I don't know anything about Milton using this number, but 10,000,000,000 is in the USA called ten billion, in Great Britain it is 10 million million.
The term was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta (1911-1981), nephew of Americanmathematician Edward Kasner, when he was nine years old. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).
1940
The number 1940 is written as MCMXL in Roman numerals. M represents 1000, CM represents 900, and XL represents 40.
"MCMXL" is the Roman numeral representation for the number 1940.