Citations:googology

English citations of googology

sense "the study of large numbers"

1. • 1984 March 12, John Gantz, “Blue-chip Key Tronic”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 11:

     In applying "googology" to investment in the personal-computer market — one always wants to invest in companies with high unit growth — the best I could come up with was Key Tronic.

   • 2015, Ir. Maarten Looijen, Over getallen gesproken - Talking about numbers, →ISBN:

     Jonathan Bowers (1969 - ...) is an American amateur mathematician, named 'the father of modern googology'.

sense "a very long polylogy"

• 1997 June 21, Stef Jones, “Why does all sf ____?”, in rec.arts.sf.composition‎^[1] (Usenet):

  I would never have made it through the Julian May googology without the family tree at the beginning of each (even if it did give spoilers).