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Kasner's number naming legacy includes technology unforeseen in his lifetime. The Internet search engine "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol", which refers to 10100 (the number represented by a 1 followed by 100-zeros).

The "Googleplex" is the Google company headquarters, located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, near San Jose.

Googleplex is a play on words for googolplex, the name given by Kasner's nephew to a number with that many zeros that you get tired from counting. Kasner assigned it to the large number:

(the number represented by a 1 followed by a googol of zeros).

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