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[noisiaturismo]

Wikipedia:

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Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people.

Biggest number: 4 / 2 x googolplex x googolplex x googolplex - 2 x googolplex + 9001

 

[W3H5]

You can put forward any concept you wish to any mathematician worth his salt and he will shoot down every one of them...I stand by my statement as FACT...

The fact that Pi is reoccurring is fact. I didn't deny that.

And as an advanced philosopher I would state that mathematics is fundamentally flawed because, according to math's, I can be only half way away from any place at any one time, meaning I can't walk out of my front door because in mathematical terms I will only ever be half way again to the fresh-hold.

'Look it up'. Some one in this thread already used this term on me. I'm spitting it back.

Again, philosophy is massively subjective until you realise that it's the only logical way of looking at life.

Confused? Yeah, welcome to my world.

Like I said, I must dash, sleep is-a-calling!

 

[AOS-]

There honestly is no such thing as a "biggest" number... numbers themselves don't have a limit; only the things we apply numbers to have limits...

 

[TankAss95]

There honestly is no such thing as a "biggest" number... numbers themselves don't have a limit; only the things we apply numbers to have limits...

Yeah I think like this too. Infinite is impossible for me to comprehend. Physicians often describe things as being infinite. In the dimension that we live in, I find that impossible.

 

[AOS-]

You just contradicted yourself

Infinity is not a defined number, infinity is a way to describe something that's limitless...

 

[Akmuq]

If you type Google into Google you will break the internet, don't try it, not even as a joke or anything...

 

[AOS-]

Done it before and nothing happened

 

[Azuremen]

You are wrong my maths teacher said that to me.

Your argument is compelling, but I will have to see what qualifications your math teacher has to make such bold statements.

I'll accept a high resolution scan of his certifications. Or a fax, notarized.

I expect this response in the next 48 hours. Otherwise, I'll be forced to declare

"No"

 

[gt5 fan]

Your argument is compelling, but I will have to see what qualifications your math teacher has to make such bold statements.

I'll accept a high resolution scan of his certifications. Or a fax, notarized.

I expect this response in the next 48 hours. Otherwise, I'll be forced to declare

"No"

 

[boiltheocean]

No, I think you'll find Graham's number is the largest discovered. Unless you're a complete moron or have some kind of magic mathematical ability that has outdone Graham, my statement stands to be corrected.

Graham's number + 1?

 

[AOS-]

Graham's number + 1?

[Insert any given name of a large number] + 1....

Stumps any "largest number ever" statement...

 

[wfooshee]

There is another number that is infinite in size(put to paper that is)and that is pi...There is no end to the numbers right of the decimal point...

That's not the same thing as "large." pi's value is a bit over 3.14, very easily expressible. The fact that it is irrational, i.e. has an infinite number of non-repeating digits, has nothing to do with being large.

Graham's number is a really really really big number, representing a huge quantity. It is not the largest number "possible," it is the largest number actually used in a mathematical proof, or was at the time it was expressed.

Examples of how large it is as stated by sites found by Googling it are pretty amazing. Like if every Planck volume in the Universe were set to 0 or 1, the first term of the expression used to represent Graham's number has already exceeded the known Universe's capacity to express it. And there are 60-some more terms!

But you can still have a larger number than that, just by adding to it.

At least google has a cool name. Can you imagine having to "Graham" something to do a web search?

 

[BobK]

There is another number that is infinite in size(put to paper that is)and that is pi...There is no end to the numbers right of the decimal point...

Pi has an infinite number of digits in the decimal system. It is hardly unique; in fact, there are infinitely many numbers that have an infinite number of digits in the decimal system. Take one third for instance; it's a decimal point followed by an infinite number of 3's.

Contrariwise, a number like one tenth is represented as one digit, or two if you count the leading zero before the decimal point. But in binary or hexadecimal, it's an infinitely repeating number much like 1/3 in decimal. And one third is a single digit (or two) in a base-3 system.

A numerical notation system can be devised in which pi can be expressed in a rational number of digits, and in fact mathematicians have done so.

 

[noisiaturismo]

If you type Google into Google you will break the internet, don't try it, not even as a joke or anything...

Actually it will work and you will get 12.6 billion results

 

[Rit]

The difference with pi is that the decimals never repeat as they will with fractions...1/3=.33333...pi will never repeat.

 

[AOS-]

And this thread was talking about numbers of large value not a number with the longest string of digits.... 3 < pi < 4.... That's not a very big number.

 

[BobK]

The difference with pi is that the decimals never repeat as they will with fractions...1/3=.33333...pi will never repeat.

Neither will e. the square root of 2 (or the cube root, or the fourth root, or...) or the nth root of most numbers for that matter. What's your point here?

 

[Rit]

Neither will e. the square root of 2 (or the cube root, or the fourth root, or...) or the nth root of most numbers for that matter. What's your point here?

Read post no.30...Someone earlier suggested that to write down the largest number would take more surface space than the Universe allows...I was just giving another example...Get it?