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You might as well say 'One plus the biggest whole number nameable with 1,000 characters of English text', if that sort of thing is allowed.

• vecter 15y ago
  Are you alluding to Scott Aaronson's essay on Who Can Name the Bigger Number? [1] [1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
  • platz 15y ago
    Yep!! The point is, if you say 'Take however many symbols it takes you to describe your large number', that's not well-defined and is fundamentally ambiguous due to the nature of language.
  • dasil003 15y ago
    Of course the whole large number pissing contest is extremely ageist.