How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham)

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1. @jiggawattsMay 2024· in “A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans”

   If math can make you feel awe, you've got to watch the Numberphile series on very big numbers. They're constants used in proofs that are specific, well-defined integers known to be finite, but so huge that the physical universe does not have enough particles (or even Plank-scale microstates) in it to represent the number of digits these numbers have! Absolutely mind-bending stuff. Listed in increasing order: "Graham's Number" [LINK] "How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham)" this video "The Enormous TREE(3)" [LINK] "TREE(3) (extra footage)" [LINK] "The Daddy of Big Numbers (Rayo's Number)" [LINK]

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2. @prezjordanDec 2014· in “Prime Gap Grows After Decades-Long Lull”

   Is loglogloglog...log the only beast that can conquer Knuth's arrow notation? (x ↑↑↑↑...↑ n) Every time I watch videos about arrow notation or, more famously, Graham's number, my head explodes :) this video Big big numbers are really, really cool!

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3. @prezjordanFeb 2015· in “Graham's Number”

   My brain melts every time I watch this video [1] from Numberphile on Graham's number. They also had another video [2] with Ron Graham himself :) [1]: [LINK] [2]: this video

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4. @dahartNov 2019· in “Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (2000)”

   > why not have an operator that applies up arrows a number of times defined with up arrows? That is exactly what up arrows do, isn’t it? Up arrows are iterated up arrows. I learned this in college but still didn’t fully understand up arrows for a long time, they grow unimaginably bigger and faster than I first thought. This video explains it pretty well: this video I don’t know about ‘ultimate’ but there are some generalizations of up arrows: [LINK] [LINK]

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5. @ObiWanFrijolesJul 2022· in “The Fourth Operation: What Comes After Exponentiation”

   Graham's number [0] can be defined using hyperoperations. There's an awesome video with Ron Graham himself on Numberphile (YouTube) [1] [0] [LINK] [1] this video

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