Wierd and wonderful fact 101

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Google

Popular and widely used search engine located at http://www.google.com that was first developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1996 for a research project at Stanford University. The name Google is inspired from the term googol.

Googol

Term invented by Milton Sirotta, Googol refers to 10 to the 10th power or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000.

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Dhrystones

Developed by Reinhold Weicker in 1984, dhrystone is a benchmark software program that tests a computers integer performance and is a good test of the computer processor.
Each dhrystones is a measurement of how many times the program is able to run each second. For example '1234 dhrystones per second' indicates that the program was capable of running 1,234 times in a one second period.