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Friday, September 30, 2005
Toblerone and Google
By Clint Fabiosa & Andrew Ong
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In 1908, Theodore Tobler (son of Swiss chocolate maker Jean Tobler) and his cousin Emil Baumann named their distinctive chocolate bars Toblerone, a word play on the surname “Tobler” and “torrone,” the Italian word for honey-almond nougat.

Google (from the Google search engine) is a play on the word “googol,” which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, to refer to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

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