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Even more directly, in fact.

"Google" is from "Googol", the latter being 10^100. Apparently, "Google" the corporate name is an accidental misspelling of the number.

The number (googol) has no mathematical special properties and the name was invented by a 9-year old in the 1920s.

Googolplex is 10 to the googolth power, so 10^(10^100).

And Googleplex is the MV campus of Google.





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