What is the smallest named number?

[IronWing]

eh, beat me to it. I can sort of understand a googleplex or whatever. I mean, I can write it down and explain what it means. Not so with Graham's number.

Math is weird. Graham's number is so large that there is not space in the entire universe to write it down yet...

The last 12 digits of Graham's number are ...262464195387.

 

[DrPizza]

eh, beat me to it. I can sort of understand a googleplex or whatever. I mean, I can write it down and explain what it means. Not so with Graham's number.

And, it has relevance to a real mathematical problem.

Answer to OP's question : infinitesimal. it's greater than zero, and smaller than any real number. See hyperreal and surreal numbers.

 

[Ruptga]

Math is weird. Graham's number is so large that there is not space in the entire universe to write it down yet...

Always relevent

 

[Ken g6]

Would you accept iota?

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Always relevent

I post this to list-serves on research methods regularly.



I think Ken g6 wins.

 

[Ruptga]

I post this to list-serves on research methods regularly.

Are any of the people on those lists faculty at MS&T? My CS curriculum is more number theory than CS, and I'm running out of fucks to give about all this damned math.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Are any of the people on those lists faculty at MS&T? My CS curriculum is more number theory than CS, and I'm running out of fucks to give about all this damned math.

I felt the same way; which is why I went to Information Systems.