Google is now a wholly owned subsidiary of a new company called "Alphabet", to be run by Larry Page and Sergei Brin. Sundar Pichai will be CEO of Google, which will remain focused on its core of web-related products. Alphabet will serve as and umbrella for Google's now quite diverse projects, with a separate CEO for each. By way of example, the announcement cites a Life Sciences group, and a group called Calico which is focused on longevity.
All stock in Google will be converted to Alphabet stock, with the same rights and number of shares.
takyon: The Register, The New York Times, Wired, MarketWatch.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @09:03AM
The alphabet is: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Assuming the usual way of number system extension, where digits with values of 10 upwards are names with letters, this can only be a valid number for base 36 (or above). Taking base 36, the alphabet therefore is
10×3625 + 11×3624 + … + 33×362 + 34×36 + 35 = 8337503854730415241050377135811259267835 ≈ 8×1039
So, while indeed much smaller than 10100, it is certainly much larger than 26.
However one must admit that 26 is closer to that value than 10100 is.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday August 11 2015, @11:12PM
This really puts into perspective just how large a googol is. It's really fucking large. Then there's the googolplex, which is so large that your mind just blanks out.
Mathematicians aren't to be outdone in the realm of ridiculously large numbers though. There's tetration, which is to exponentiation what exponentiation is to multiplication. To give an example of tetration:
3^^3 = 7,625,597,484,987
We can't stop just yet. There's also pentation, which is to tetration what tetration is to exponentiation.
3^^^3 = 3^^7,625,597,484,987
Yes, we have exited the realm of unreality and are fast approaching plaid.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:20AM
Although those numbers are a lot like a front door: there's at least small, big, convergent, divergent, countable, and uncountable infinities [wikipedia.org] in mathematics :)
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