Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast

Re:Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast by marcosdumay on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:46PM (#23034539)

And, as it always goes with the Gramham's number, all your physical metaphors for how ridiculous small metaphors go are so ridiculous small that if I try to convey the factor with a metaphor it will make almost no difference.

Or, in other words, blowing a kiss against a nuclear blow? That absolutely hugely more relevant than taking the log of the Graham's number. I can't even say how hugely more relevant it is without an almost equally irrelevant comparison.

(And yes, I am certain you know this. It's a pedantic clarification, I hope it made the point clearer.)

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Re:Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast by bonoboTP on Friday May 01, 2020 @08:56PM (#23048104)

Yes, I agree, but your correction also doesn't make that much of a difference, even after realizing this, we're still far.

On the other hand there is just maybe a page of explanation needed for a somewhat educated layperson to understand the construction of Graham's number.

So on one hand it's unexplicably big to the point where it's even unexplicable how unexplicably big it is etc, on the other hand it can be compactly described. It's an example of the power of thought and reason and deliberate design, making so much of so little.

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