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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by psyc on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:26AM (#30636569)
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

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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by philzook on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:36AM (#30636641)
But who can _prove_ the biggest number https://github.com/codyroux/name-the-biggest-number
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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by Ishmaeli on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:09AM (#30636463)
A(G,G)

https://xkcd.com/207/

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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by jjmellon on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:59PM (#30636399)
The number that can only be named with too many words.
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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by flemhans on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:36PM (#30636248)
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

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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by carl_dr on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:24AM (#30637264)
Read the article and take another 15s. That was one of the naive examples he gives near the start.
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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by tihsllub on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:12AM (#30636486)
You win
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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by bradknowles on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:18PM (#30648383)
Maybe "Googolplex!" ?
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Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by bradknowles on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:36PM (#30648486)
Nope. Gotta use an infinite nested series of Busy Beaver functions, or something like that.
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