Biggest number you can think of using 30 characters or less

Syringer

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Inspired by the Graham's thread, and this "game" I read about below..

You have fifteen seconds. Using standard math notation, English words, or both, name a single whole number?not an infinity?on a blank index card. Be precise enough for any reasonable modern mathematician to determine exactly what number you?ve named, by consulting only your card and, if necessary, the published literature.

So contestants can?t say "the number of sand grains in the Sahara," because sand drifts in and out of the Sahara regularly. Nor can they say "my opponent?s number plus one," or "the biggest number anyone?s ever thought of plus one"?again, these are ill-defined, given what our reasonable mathematician has available. Within the rules, the contestant who names the bigger number wins.

Instead of 15 seconds though let's have a max of 30 characters--any full English word is valid, which is to say no abbreviations (e.g. no Grm's #...but Graham's # is), so long as it makes sense. But then 10^80 takes up less characters than "Graham's number", and 9^999999999999 is a lot bigger anyhow with the same # of chars.

A character would count as anything you have to type out, whether it be a space or symbol--^ counts as a char even if you can write out the same thing without one, and AT doesn't allow superscripts, unless you want to use ² or something.

My entry:

9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^99
 

Quasmo

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gooogol^googol^googol^googol*9

or

googolplex^googolplex^googol^9

EDIT: googolplex??????????googolplex
 

Eli

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:laugh:

Edit: ^^ I think the smiley counts as at least infinity^googol*Google.com.

That's gotta be.. a lot.

;)
 

Chronoshock

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You gotta use something better than just exponentiation. Inspirited by the xkcd comic about it, A(g64, g64) where A is the Ackermann function and g64 is the notation for Graham's number. If you wanted to write it all out you could do it in under 30 letters, but that isn't how you'd write it for a mathematical equation
 

Syringer

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Originally posted by: Quasmo
gooogol^googol^googol^googol*9

a) That's 34 characters (33 without the typo)
b) 99^999 uses as many characters as googol but is bigger :)
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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Originally posted by: Syringer
But then 10^80 takes up less characters than "Graham's number"

Do you realize that Graham's number is not 10^80, right?

It's "roughly 10 raised to a number that has 10^80 zeroes"

10^80 is the number of zeroes the number has that you're raising 10 to...

So if you were to write that out, it wouldn't be 10^80, it would be

10^X

Where X is a number with 10^80 zeros

"Graham's number" is 15 characters?

In those 15 characters you get

10^100000000000000000000000000000.......000

The number of zeroes there that I omitted is roughly 10^80
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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I don't understand why so many people are putting infinity in their answer when it's clearly not allowed according to the OP

EDIT: since I don't know that many big numbers I'll go with

Graham's#^Graham's#^Graham's#
 

tfinch2

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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
I don't understand why so many people are putting infinity in their answer when it's clearly not allowed according to the OP

Didn't you get the memo? Doing what the OP explicitly said not to do is a good recipe for LuLz.
 
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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
I don't understand why so many people are putting infinity in their answer when it's clearly not allowed according to the OP

Oh shit, we are supposed to read the OP before posting? /facepalm