Subject: Re: How do you imagine future Common Lisp standard ?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:54:33 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <nMadnWdrB7-UCI_eRVn-sw@speakeasy.net>
Peter Seibel  <peter@gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
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| drewc <drewc@rift.com> writes:
| > ... i think it gets my point across. I imagine the symbol GOOGLE to
| > have two namespaces, the symbol-value is "http://google.ca", and the
| > symbol-function is '(lambda (x) (search-internet x :search-engine-url
| > google))' or whatever (and completly ignoring the fact that google has
| > a different value in the 'mathematics' package).
| 
| Actually not. The mathematical constant to which you presumably are
| referring is a Googol.
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FWIW, 1 googol == (expt 10 100)

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| The Google guys are good at search, but bad at spelling.
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According to <http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html>,
"Google "a play on the word googol". It's obviously a deliberate
misspelling, since "googol" could not be trademarked, but "Google"
could be... and was! [C.f. "Orbitz", "Infiniti", "Netflix", etc.]


-Rob

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-Rob

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Rob Warnock			<rpw3@rpw3.org>
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