Skewe's number? (it's larger than a googolplex)
Is there anything larger that's useful in mathematics and has a name?
Is there anything larger that's useful in mathematics and has a name?
Just wondering, what's the largest number with a name?
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A googol?
Ah nope, googolplex is bigger - The number 10 raised to the power googol, written out as the numeral 1 followed by 10^100 zeros. aha.
Ah nope, googolplex is bigger - The number 10 raised to the power googol, written out as the numeral 1 followed by 10^100 zeros. aha.
Chaotic42
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I found a website somewhere that has the naming scheme for any number possible. I can't find it though.
Apparently someone used 10^10^10^10^10^7 in a proof.
Apparently someone used 10^10^10^10^10^7 in a proof.
infinity is not a number. There are different sizes of infinity. And, continuum infinity is larger than aleph infinity; but there is no largest size of infinity. (continuum squared is a larger infinity than continuum)
notfred, thanks...
Graham's number is larger than Skewe's number... I'll have to look for more info on that one.
Graham's number is larger than Skewe's number... I'll have to look for more info on that one.
Originally posted by: LoKe
Oh, I thought we were talking digits here. My mistake.
Rofl. For that matter, any irrational number will have the 'same' number of digits as pi.
It's just that pi has been calculated to more decimal places than other irrational numbers.
Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Originally posted by: LoKe
Oh, I thought we were talking digits here. My mistake.
Rofl. For that matter, any irrational number will have the 'same' number of digits as pi.
It's just that pi has been calculated to more decimal places than other irrational numbers.
Actually, I just saw a 10th grade student define an example of an irrational number the other day for a state exam. Her example: 0.414414441444414444414444441...
Thus, the calculation of that number to more digits than anyone has bothered with for Pi is quite trivial.
Edit: could a number be defined in such a way that while it has an infinite number of digits, it has infinitely many more digits than Pi?
Damn that Cantor!
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Originally posted by: LoKe
Oh, I thought we were talking digits here. My mistake.
Rofl. For that matter, any irrational number will have the 'same' number of digits as pi.
It's just that pi has been calculated to more decimal places than other irrational numbers.
Actually, I just saw a 10th grade student define an example of an irrational number the other day for a state exam. Her example: 0.414414441444414444414444441...
Thus, the calculation of that number to more digits than anyone has bothered with for Pi is quite trivial.
Yeah, I've seen something similar along the lines of
101001000100001000001...
Edit: However, calculating the digits of Pi is more exciting, lol.
GuitarDaddy
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Apparently Graham's number is so big, that it takes a page just to describe how to write it down... I think it's even bigger than Thirtyseventy godzillion to the thirtyseventy godzillion power.
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