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Excellent article. If you like this sort of thing, you may enjoy Busy Beaver numbers, my favorite treatment of which is the essay "Who Can Name the Bigger Numbe
by ColinDabritz 13y ago
Excellent article. If you like this sort of thing, you may enjoy Busy Beaver numbers, my favorite treatment of which is the essay "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?"
http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
- cool-RR 13y agoYes! I read that article years ago and was absolutely captivated!
- chinpokomon 13y agoThank you for this resource. I hadn't formally been exposed to tetration, but I had recently been pondering the concept, I guess in the same way Ackermann came up with his sequence. I'm so glad to know that this isn't uncharted territory in mathematics, and I now have more knowledge with which to frame my thought experiments.
- ColinDabritz 13y agoGraham's number - for a while, the largest number used in a proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg There are faster growing sequences as well, see: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2497/what-is-the-biggest-number-ever-used-in-a-mathematical-proof http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2497/what-is-the-big... both fun as well. But busy beaver consumes them all.