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Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com)
10 points by graderjs on March 11, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



But who can give the best names to big numbers? Probably Jonathan Bowers.

https://googology.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan_Bowers

http://www.polytope.net/hedrondude/scrapers.htm


But who can _prove_ the biggest number https://github.com/codyroux/name-the-biggest-number



The number that can only be named with too many words.


This took me 15 s:

9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9


Read the article and take another 15s. That was one of the naive examples he gives near the start.


You win


Maybe "Googolplex!" ?


Nope. Gotta use an infinite nested series of Busy Beaver functions, or something like that.




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