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Really Big Numbers (2015)
- Eliezer 8y ago"Already 7 inside a heptagon is much, much bigger than Graham’s number." Did I completely misunderstand that the polygon series is pretty much the Steinhaus-Moser polygons? Because Graham's Number is way out beyond what can be compactly expressed in those.
- danharaj 8y agoA page on large numbers is good if it eventually points to Harvey Friedman's work.
- hossbeast 8y agoLink?
- nimchimpsky 8y agohttps://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
- dewhelmed 8y agoJust to add, I really enjoyed Scott Aaronson's essay on this topic: https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
- sandfly 8y agoWait But Why has an excellent piece on Graham's number: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html