Posted on 03/04/2016 5:01:38 AM PST by LibWhacker
We all know that a billion is a lot and a trillion is a lot more, but what do you call numbers that are even bigger? A Googol is bigger: it's 10 to the hundredth power—but it's not the biggest. In this well-researched 19 minute film, master explainer Sharkee takes us through ever larger numbers.
He applies three rules. The largest number cannot be a number plus 1. The number must be useful in some way. And infinity doesn’t count, because it isn't actually a number.
VIDEO explaining how they arrive at these really big numbers (Googolplex is nothing) -- [19 minutes]
That is right. But for the purposes of this game, we can’t do it. Did you watch the video? Worth it.
Another one of the rules that I don’t get is the idea that it must be a useful number. Okay... so he apparently thinks he can come up with a useful number that can’t be arrived at by adding 1 over and over again until we got there??? Sigh... Oh, well... rulz is rulz.
Well, Doc Brown said his wife was one in a googleplex, so HE thought it was an important number. :-)
The largest number will be our debt if either of the dems get elected.
One is the loneliest number.
infinity to the infinity power ...
Well without reading the Article and watching the film, the biggest number I had heard of before was the googolplex, or googol to the power of googol. To make that number bigger in a simple way, I would say googolplex! Or factorial googolplex. Which of course is googolplex * (googolplex-1) * (googolplex - 2)* .....* (googolplex -(googolplex-1)) = googolplex! I am sure there are much bigger though just from reading above, but this is more than I will ever need.
I remember the word from around jr high school ....
The term “infinity” comes to mind.
Infinity to the infinite power X infinity to the infinite power + infinity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number
How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
-PJ
Mathematicians are some of the most brilliant ... and illogical people on the planet.
That rule isn’t illogical. It’s a rule meant to make the game more interesting. Without it every new number is just a trivial “largest number,” that only remains the largest number until someone adds one to it.
Lol, I’m trying to figure out a new game that identifies the loneliest number less than the largest number. But not one. Nor one plus any positive integer. Nor the largest number minus any positive integer. Hey, I think that’s it! That’s the new game... Go (starting with Rayo’s number).
(Note: I haven't done the actual math to back up this assertion! But I'm pretty sure its true.)
Gentlemen, gentlemen... You have broken the most important rule: We can’t use infinity!
Thanks for that. Will read it later. Take a look at that video if you can. Graham’s number is mentioned. Turns out it’s a pipsqueak nowadays.
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