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What is the smallest named number?

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Gibsons said:
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.
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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.
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Gibsons said:
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.
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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.
 
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Ruptga said:
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.
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I felt the same way; which is why I went to Information Systems.
 
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