A Hundred 0s

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teebee
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A Hundred 0s

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teebee wrote:That's drew eh true of course. However, "drawed" reveals a little more if you know how to read it.
"Drawed" is an anagram of "Edward" which is the first name of the American mathematician Kastner who introduced the term "googol" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kasner).
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Sample solution:
We are looking at Google Doodles here.

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11/02/2011 Feb 11, 2011 Thomas Edison's Birthday - (Global)
15/03/2011 Mar 15, 2011 Hungarian National Day - (Hungary)
19/12/2010 Dec 19, 2010 95th Birthday of Edith Piaf - (France, Germany)
24/07/2010 Jul 24, 2010 Alfons Mucha's 150th Birthday - (Selected Countries) / Arthur Boyd's Birthday - (Australia)
09/02/2010 Feb 09, 2010 Natsume Soseki's Birthday - (Japan)
06/02/2010 Feb 06, 2010 Sami National Day - (Sweden, Norway, Finland)
18/05/2008 May 18, 2008 125th Birthday of Walter Gropius
22/04/2008 Apr 22, 2008 Earth Day - (Global)
03/10/2007 Oct 03, 2007 Reunification Day - (Germany)
04/07/2007 Jul 04, 2007 Independence Day - (US)
01/08/2006 Aug 01, 2006 Swiss National Day - (Switzerland)
14/05/2006 May 14, 2006 Mother's Day - (Global)
22/04/2006 Apr 22, 2006 Earth Day - (Global)
16/05/2009 May 16, 2009 Norway's National Day - (Norway)
06/07/2003 Jul 06, 2003 Tanabata Festival - (Japan)
26/10/2009 Oct 26, 2009 Austrian National Day - (Austria)
29/02/2004 Feb 29, 2004 Leap Year - (Global)
20/03/2004 Mar 20, 2004 Persian New Year / International Day of Francophonie
04/01/2006 Jan 04, 2006 Louis Braille's Birthday - (Global)
25/03/2011 Mar 25, 2011 400th Birthday of Evliya Çelebi - (Turkey)
08/11/2010 Nov 08, 2010 Discovery of X-Rays - (Global)
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This took quite a lot of creative guess work...

Sometimes the doodles were off by one day. Or there were several ones for the same day. Others weren't even listed. But my 'translation' started with THEANS... so I knew I was on the right path.

Maybe this challenge should be updated, to make sure it works fine.
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yes-man wrote:This took quite a lot of creative guess work...

Sometimes the doodles were off by one day. Or there were several ones for the same day. Others weren't even listed. But my 'translation' started with THEANS... so I knew I was on the right path.
I didn't have the impression that there was something wrong with them. See my sample solution above. Which ones do you think were off?

What I do know is that Google has different Doodles for different countries, and some of them are the same worldwide.
yes-man wrote:Maybe this challenge should be updated, to make sure it works fine.
Well it seems there is no one around who could do that anyway, so we're out of luck. :-(
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AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:I didn't have the impression that there was something wrong with them. See my sample solution above. Which ones do you think were off?
The source is off in some cases, for example they cannot decide whether the Norway national day is on 16th or 17th May (they were off in 2009, but correct in 2014 and 2015).
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