# Wierd and wonderful fact 101

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wierd-and-wonderful-fact-101/682>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [July 25, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wierd-and-wonderful-fact-101/682 "2002-07-25T16:59:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Makaveli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@Makaveli](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Makaveli)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wierd-and-wonderful-fact-101/682/1 "2002-07-25T16:59:27Z")

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**Google**

Popular and widely used search engine located at [http://www.google.com](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,  
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wierd-and-wonderful-fact-101/682/2 "2002-07-25T17:02:28Z")

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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.