Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born 19 December 1934) is an Indian politician who served as the 12th #President of India from 2007 to 2012; she was the first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President on 25 July 2007, succeeding #Abdul Kalam, after defeating her rival #Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. She retired from the office in July 2012. She was succeeded as President by #Pranab Mukherjee.

Figure 1 Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Patil is a member of the Indian National #Congress (INC) and was nominated for the presidency by the governing United Progressive Alliance and Indian Left

 

Do You Know Why Some Websites Have "www" in Their Address While Some Don't?

 

If you frequently surf the Internet, you may have realized by now that certain URLs have the "www" prefix in front of them, while certain others don't. For example http://www.google.com has it, while http://douknowthe.blogspot.com doesn't. Why is this so, you may ask?

The reason for this happening is due to the usual practice of naming the Internet hosts according to the services they provide. For example:

• The host name of a Web server usually has the "www" prefix.
• The host name of an FTP server usually has the "ftp" prefix.
• The host name of a News server usually has the "nntp" or "news" prefix.

The use of the prefixes is in fact NOT required. That is why we can see many website today not having the "www" prefix in their URLs. The "www" is simply a choice in name, nothing more.

You can find out more from these articles:

• Wikipedia - World Wide Web
• Ask Leo! - Why do some website addresses have "www", and some don't? And why do some work with or without the "www"?
• HowStuffWorks - Why do some Web sites include www in the URL while others don't?

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Do You Know What is a Googol?

 

Nope, I did not misspell THE search engine.

A googol is a very huge number. It is actually 10¹⁰⁰ (which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes).

The term was popularized by Edward Kasner. On a walk with his nephews, Milton and Edwin Sirotta, Kasner asked for their ideas for a name for a very large number. Nine-year-old Milton suggested "googol."

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, named their search engine after the term googol.

There is also googolplex - an even bigger number. A googolplex is equals to 10^googol (which is 1 followed by a googol zeroes).

Incidentally, the company headquarters for Google is known as the Googleplex (most likely a combination of Google and complex).

 

 

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