Graham's Number - Numberphile

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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" this video "How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham)" [LINK] "The Enormous TREE(3)" [LINK] "TREE(3) (extra footage)" [LINK] "The Daddy of Big Numbers (Rayo's Number)" [LINK]

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2. @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]: this video [2]: [LINK]

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

   I love this video [LINK] by Sean Day[9] Plott describing Graham's number very well. At least I found that description very easy to follow. Numberphile [1] too has a great explanation, but I still strongly recommend watching Day[9] video because it tells a little bit of history and Sean is very expressive and good speaker so he easily engages viewer. [1] this video

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4. @johnsonjoMay 2019· in “Knuth's Up-Arrow Notation”

   I've seen this notation in a video [1] on Graham's number [2] by Numberphile. It's a pretty interesting video for seeing how quickly the numbers get unimaginably massive. [1]: this video [2]: [LINK]

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5. @BalgairNov 2017· in “Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029”

   10E65 if protons do decay. 10E(10E76) if protons do not decay and virtual black-holes do not exist. At about 10E(10E(10E56)) the universe should spontaneously create a new universe, so that that is the most upper limit of time in our universe. Fairly small actually, compared to things like Graham's number and Tree(3). Turns out, infinity is really big. [LINK] this video

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