Date:    Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:34:53 -0400
<br>From:    Larry Horn <laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: gazillion
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<br>At 7:51 AM -0400 6/16/98, Avi Arditti wrote:
<br>>Andrea Vine, Larry Horn, et al --
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<br>>Intuition kept saying: :Spell it 9gazillion9; it just feels right, I don9t
<br>>know why.:
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<br>>Then Reason hit the delete key: :No, fool, that is pronounced 9g /ah/
<br>>zillion.9:
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<br>>Dash that eternal conflict...thanks for setting me straight.  Perhaps
<br>>gazillion will squeeze itself between :gazer: and :gazongas: in the next
<br>>HDAS.  Meanwhile, I am off to ask some folks on the street just how much a
<br>>gazillion is.
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<br>>Sad that people don9t use 9googol.9 It9s such a fun existing word.
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<br>Not to mention "googolplex"--1 followed by a googol of zeros, where a
<br>googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros, both dubbings from George Gamow's _One,
<br>Two, Three, Infinity_ (1947).  I think "googol" was suggested by his young
<br>son.     --Larry
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