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But then inf, e.g. calculated by 1/0 would be the largest number

• ChancyChance 4y ago
  You didn’t read the article. It asks for the largest terminating number.
  • rurban 4y ago
    Probably better than you. There is no such thing as a terminating number, and the article mentions "the shortest terminating program to produce the largest number whose output size exceeds Graham's number". Which should be an expression better than ack(9,9). But since you can emit just inf, you don't need a turing machine/lambda calculus at all.
    • kadoban 4y ago
      Infinity isn't a specific value, it's not interesting in this context.
  • dang 4y ago
    "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html