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...sleep. "I think I'm a homosexual," began another youthful caller. "Where can I get help?" He was referred to a social agency. Crank calls are rare. One high school girl rang up to ask how to divide 182 by 9; her listener, no arithmetician, was stumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Relations: The Listeners | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...that a googol is "the mathematical term for 1 plus 100 zeros" [TIME, July 6] is to be as erroneous as the third-grade arithmetician who decides that 2 plus 2 is 22 . . . A googol is the number which may be expressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

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