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Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:43:04 2011 No.3720081 [Reply] [Original]

Who was the guy that discovered a number so big that you could never write it down no matter how small.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:47:04 2011 No.3720112 >>3720081 >Implying that is not evident to anyone who knows what a number is

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:48:04 2011 No.3720115 What he fuck do you mean discover? What if I take his number, and multiply it by itself? Holy shit, I've "discovered" an even bigger number!

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:48:04 2011 No.3720116 Grahams number? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:49:04 2011 No.3720121 >>3720112 My bad, the guy that worked out the equation.

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:52:04 2011 No.3720140

>>3720115
the thing is, these ridiculously huge numbers, such as graham's, are significant because they are used in proofs. sure, you could write a power tower composed of graham's numbers and the result would be many times as large, but it would not be significant.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:55:04 2011 No.3720161 >>3720140 I'll build a proof around that number!

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:55:04 2011 No.3720163 >>3720121 >equation Again, that shit is trivial. Anyone can make an "equation" stating that there are numbers so large that they could never be written down. Are you 12? 13?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:57:04 2011 No.3720179 I know a number that doesnt have enough paper on the world to put it all down on.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:59:04 2011 No.3720187 >>3720140 Yes. I was criticizing OP's explanation of it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 00:00:04 2011 No.3720197 cuz 1+1+1+1=4

>>	Matt !!nQzaoQJreMR Sun Sep 11 00:04:56 2011 No.3720212 File: 15 KB, 224x224, dfsdfsdf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >discovered a number >mfw

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 00:07:04 2011 No.3720230 a gameilitirilian is 1 with 183576^923472^1298741^182378916^128734^2341341231325135132412362983686573657312657 x 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 00:11:04 2011 No.3720247 >>3720212 See Avogadro's number.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 00:16:04 2011 No.3720278 >>3720081 A UandOPareAfag-eon is 2^3333-6^6666+9, where is my fields Medal?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 07:53:04 2011 No.3721651 isn't that google plex? it was in segans cosmos

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