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WaitButWhy has a great longform piece explaining how big Graham’s number is. Like, make your stomach drop, big. Bonus, it contains an explanation of Knuth nota
by pfarrell 6y ago
WaitButWhy has a great longform piece explaining how big Graham’s number is. Like, make your stomach drop, big. Bonus, it contains an explanation of Knuth notation.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
- zimpenfish 6y agoAnd then you get Tree(3) which when compared means "[Graham's number] might as well be 1". https://joshkerr.com/tree3-is-a-big-number-i-mean-really-big/ https://joshkerr.com/tree3-is-a-big-number-i-mean-really-big... Maths is wacky.