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...effort stems from the fact that many numbers - particularly large ones - don't have official names. Small ones are familiar - mega- is the officially recognized prefix for 1.0x106, or 1 million. Giga- is the prefix for 1.0x109, or 1 billion. But past 1.0x1024, or yotta-, there are no official names. (With one notable exception: 1.0x10100 was set aside as googol- in 1938 - long before being respelled by Larry Page and Sergey Brin 60 years later for Google, their upstart search engine...
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