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Very true, but in all fairness the proposed solution of using Turing machines is pretty reasonable. I think the title is a play on Scott Aaronson's "largest num
by ravi-delia 3y ago
Very true, but in all fairness the proposed solution of using Turing machines is pretty reasonable. I think the title is a play on Scott Aaronson's "largest number" game.
- yarg 3y agoSure, but where do you stop? I think a more interesting question is "what's the largest number usefully representable in 64 bits?".
- ravi-delia 3y agoMy thinking is that the article isn't really investigating the largest number you can share in 64 bits- as you say, it's sort of meaningless. Instead, like the biggest number game, it's a lead in to talk about some neat topics in theoretical computer science