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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
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
No I don't think you get it. The number itself has 10^80 zeroes.Originally posted by: Syringer
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
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
Or..10^10^80?
Browntown was using factorials, right? I hadn't ever seen those until last year.Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: Jeff7
"Biggest number in existence"
What do I win?
Of course, since this is written on a notecard, and not typed, why waste characters on the ^ symbol?
Because your notation is meaningless. Google "knuth's up arrow notation". Those numbers are incredibly large. Far far far beyond comprehension. To scale, if a googleplex is the dot on top of this letter: i
Then what Browntown answered with is far far far far greater than the size of the universe. In fact, if the size of the universe were now scaled down to the size of the dot on that "i", and that dot scaled down accordingly to an incomprehensibly small dot, then Browntown's answer is still far far far larger.
If you repeated this process continuously for as many atoms as there are in the universe, Browntown's answer is STILL larger.
Originally posted by: jpeyton
No I don't think you get it. The number itself has 10^80 zeroes.Originally posted by: Syringer
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
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
Or..10^10^80?
For example, if I wanted to raise 10 by a number that had 10^2 zeroes, it would be:
10^10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
If I wanted to raise it by a number that had 10^3 zeroes, I would have to type out 1000 zeroes.
10^80 zeroes is...mind boggling.
Originally posted by: Kyteland
To steal one from xkcd:
A(g64,g64)
I didn't even have to use 30 characters and I'm beating everyone in the thread.
Originally posted by: Syringer
Originally posted by: Kyteland
To steal one from xkcd:
A(g64,g64)
I didn't even have to use 30 characters and I'm beating everyone in the thread.
I call you that and raise you...
A(g64,(A(g64,(A(g64,g64!!)))))
Or...A(g64!!,(A(g64,(A(g64,g64)))))
Which one is bigger?
Anyone want to punch that into Matlab![]()
Originally posted by: Leros
Originally posted by: Syringer
Originally posted by: Kyteland
To steal one from xkcd:
A(g64,g64)
I didn't even have to use 30 characters and I'm beating everyone in the thread.
I call you that and raise you...
A(g64,(A(g64,(A(g64,g64!!)))))
Or...A(g64!!,(A(g64,(A(g64,g64)))))
Which one is bigger?
Anyone want to punch that into Matlab![]()
Somebody should submit the job to a supercomputer. I would do it, but I don't want to get in trouble for wasting campus resources. And I have no idea earthly idea how long that would take.
Originally posted by: Kyteland
To steal one from xkcd:
A(g64,g64)
I didn't even have to use 30 characters and I'm beating everyone in the thread.
Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Originally posted by: Kyteland
To steal one from xkcd:
A(g64,g64)
I didn't even have to use 30 characters and I'm beating everyone in the thread.
I already posted that on the first page you reposter
You can't seriously expect me to read the thread before posting, can you?Originally posted by: Chronoshock
I already posted that on the first page you reposterOriginally posted by: Kyteland
To steal one from xkcd:
A(g64,g64)
I didn't even have to use 30 characters and I'm beating everyone in the thread.
Originally posted by: Farang
What the post above me says + 1
Originally posted by: jpeyton
No I don't think you get it. The number itself has 10^80 zeroes.Originally posted by: Syringer
Or..10^10^80?
For example, if I wanted to raise 10 by a number that had 10^2 zeroes, it would be:
10^10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
If I wanted to raise it by a number that had 10^3 zeroes, I would have to type out 1000 zeroes.
10^80 zeroes is...mind boggling.