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Kasner said he wasn't sure where the other four were treated.
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Kasner said he wasn't sure where the other four were treated.
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Jarod Kasner said in a telephone interview early Sunday that investigators were still determining the cause of the violence, but a fight was reported and then shots.
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Jarod Kasner said in a telephone interview early Sunday that investigators were still determining the cause of the violence, but a fight was reported and then shots.
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The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman.
Google, Inc : The No:1 Search Engine on the Web: A Review 2009
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He was based on either Kasner or Leach both Harvard Property Profs.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Common is the Socratic Method? 2009
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What you missed in the Kasner/Sirotta story was the fact that Sirotta, at the time, was an infant., and that Kasner interpreted his gurgling baby-talk as the word "googol".
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #155 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Kasner asked Sirotta to come up with a word that could describe a massive figure, and Sirotta came up with "googol."
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #155 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Kasner popularized the term with his book, Mathematics and the Imagination 1940.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #155 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Now if the space evolves so that the volume changes in a homegenous manner (not like a Kasner spacetime) then the standing waves of electromagnetic radiation are stretched or shrunk with expansion or contraction of the volume.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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