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Large integers are sometimes easier to think about in terms of infinities. Coming to mind is the extremely counterintuitive Goodstein's theorem, which becomes c

Large integers are sometimes easier to think about in terms of infinities. Coming to mind is the extremely counterintuitive Goodstein's theorem, which becomes comprehensible when one uses (infinite) ordinal numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodsteins_theorem#Goodstein_sequences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodsteins_theorem#Goodstein_se...

evincarofautumn 15y ago
I am not at all disturbed by heights, but very large numbers make me a bit uncomfortable.
- 16s 15y ago
  Yep... I think in terms of, "How many bits do I need to store one of those things." ;)
  - diminish 15y ago
    or can you compress the damn things?
    - Someone 15y ago
      Of course. That text wasn't that long, and it mentioned several of them.
- jamii 15y ago
  There are times when posting a comic is the only reasonable response. http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-09-23 http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-09-23
pavel_lishin 15y ago
The examples in that section made no sense to me at all.