Really Big Numbers (2015)

Posted by luu on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:02PM
from the mathenchant.wordpress.com dept.

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/really-big-numbers/

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Re:Really Big Numbers (2015) by Eliezer on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:17AM (#17957134)

"Already 7 inside a heptagon is much, much bigger than Graham’s number." Did I completely misunderstand that the polygon series is pretty much the Steinhaus-Moser polygons? Because Graham's Number is way out beyond what can be compactly expressed in those.

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Re:Really Big Numbers (2015) by dewhelmed on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:02AM (#17965892)

Just to add, I really enjoyed Scott Aaronson's essay on this topic: https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

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Re:Really Big Numbers (2015) by sandfly on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:37PM (#17970517)

Wait But Why has an excellent piece on Graham's number: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html

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Re:Really Big Numbers (2015) by danharaj on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @09:23PM (#17964875)

A page on large numbers is good if it eventually points to Harvey Friedman's work.

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Re:Really Big Numbers (2015) by hossbeast on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:39AM (#17976321)

Link?

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