# Numbers vs. Words Round 14: Welsh Rarebit vs. Googol

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Tom Rocks Maths
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53JfqH-KbTs

## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53JfqH-KbTs) Segment 1 (00:00 - 03:00)

Numbers versus words. Round 14. Welsh rare bit versus — one Google. — A Google was back in the day the largest number that had a name. — There are now many other crazy numbers that we have uh discovered or that have appeared in mathematical proofs that now have specific names. But sort of going back almost a hundred years, a Google was defined to be a one followed by 100 zeros. — Right. One by one. Before I go on as a word nerd, I have to ask you, what is the ethmology of Google? — I'm so glad you asked this, Susie. I knew you would. Good. — So, uh, you go back to 1920. — American mathematician Edward Castner. — Yeah. was talking about a large number and wanted to reference it in a book and asked his 9-year-old nephew, — Milton Serata, "What should we call a one followed by a 100 zeros? " — Yeah. — And Google G O L. — It is quite childlike actually, isn't it? — Yeah. It's lovely. It's like — bouncy. — You'd make it up as like an alien language as a kid, is it? Like a Google. It's like — Google, but it sounds like giggle as well. I Yeah, I really like that. So, could you have a Google plus one? — Yeah, absolutely. Okay. And then what if you get to the next? — Well, so this is the thing. The uh let's say the mindset of a mathematician. The ways we have fun is you have the Google. So one 100 zeros. Then you can say, well, what if I had a one followed by a Google of zeros. — Yes, — that's a Google plex. — Ah. — And then this is we do stop here. Then we went even further. We were like, "What if you have a one followed by a Google plex of zeros? " And that's called a Google plexium. — So when I was growing up, um, we often had cheese on toast, which is one of my favorite things. And my mom would call it Welsh rabbit, which I thought was her sort of personal nickname. I heard a few other people saying it, but more often than not, I would hear Welsh rare bit. And I thought, "Oh, how funny. Maybe she got that wrong. " And it was only later that I discovered that Welsh rare bit was a much later incarnation of Welsh rabbit. And that began as an insult towards the Welsh, one of many unfair um references to the Welsh in the dictionary. Um which thankfully are ebbing away. But Welsh rabbit carried the inference that the Welsh were too poor to eat real rabbit or real meat. So instead they had to make do with cheese on toast. I see. — But obviously chefs thought, well this doesn't sound very appetizing. So let's sort of you know poshify it a bit if that's a word. Um and so they called it Welsh rare bit which sounds so much more refined and um that is the one that has stuck with us but originally Welsh rabbit. — So which one gets your vote? Is it Google or Welsh rabbit? Let us know in the comments and vote in the poll.

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*Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/42730*