11/21   If 2^x=googol, what is x?
        \_ x = 300 * log(2) -mrauser
           \_ No, x = 100 log 10 / log 2
              \_ Crap I inverted the addition/multiplication log rules.
                 I loose. -mr
                 \_ yermom's loose
        \_ Ummm.. when did we start giving high school students accounts and
        \_ Ummm.. when did we start giving high school students accounts
           motd access?
           \- is this a case of 1. you dont know a google is defined as
              10^100 or 2. you know that but dont know how to solve for
              x in 10^100 = 2^x ? you may wish to learn about THE AWESOME
              POWER OF LOGARITHMS (tm).
              \_ It's hard to claim not to know the definition of a googol in
                 this age of erm google.
                 \_ You're on crack.  Probably 90% of the people who've heard
                    of "Google" have never heard of a "googol".
                    \_ My we are dense on motd today.  It's trivial to google
                       the definition of googol.
                    \_ My we are dense on motd today.  It's trivial to find
                       the defintion of googol with google.
                       \- that assumes it occurs to you there is a defn to
                          google for. which probably doesnt occur to most
                          people. its easy to find out QUANTAS is the
                          queensland and nothern territory aerial service
                          via the WEEB ... but it never occurs to many that
                          it stands for soemthing rather than being a word.
                          it's easy to find out nokia used to be in rubber
                          goods but it never occurs to most people it might
                          have been something other than a cell phone
                          company. it si easy to discover SPRINT was part
                          of a rail company but most people wont accidentally
                          stumble on that or wonder "i wonder what SPRINT
                          stands for".
                          \_ Given the context of the original question, it's
                             fairly obvious that a googol is *something*.
                             After that, it shouldn't take a lot of enterprise
                             or imagination to look up the word in a dictionary
                             or to ask google for a definition.
                             \- we're not talking about the original question
                                where the fellow explicitly asks "what number
                                is it" but the vast majority to whom it is a
                                search engine and probably never occurs to them
                                that the name predates that. when google first
                                got going newsstories would often explain the
                                name. now nobody does. the fact that they
                                explained it suggests the meaning wasnt common
                                knowledge. i bet a lot of people who once
                                heard the meaning no longer remember it had
                                a separate meaning. i think it might occur
                                to some people "inktomi" is probably from
                                somewhere [i would ahve probably guessed
                                japanese for spider, rather than a native
                                am word] but i think if you put it to many
                                people, they would have guessed google was
                                just a nonsense word or a made up word like
                                say "accenture". i think even fewer
                                realize "googleplex" is also doublemeaninged.
                                i'm sure they assume it is only from
                                "google complex" and dont know that it too
                                is a number.
                                \_ You do realize that the original question
                                   says "googol" not "google", right?
                          \_ It's QANTAS, not QUANTAS.
           \_ Dumb high school students, no less.
              \_ Hey tom, can you solve this?
        \_ This gets my vote for lamest thread of the week.