Infinite Numbers

[balon!]

Does it have a limit? I've never used anything more than a billion, but since our system doesn't have a top cap are there actual names? Like, "Million" "Billion" ...."Brazillian"?

Where does it go after Billion?

[Vain]

Moved to Gen Disc.

I think the largest named number is a googleplex - which is a google to the power of a google

[balon!]

Moved to Gen Disc.

I think the largest named number is a googleplex - which is a google to the power of a google

HAHA. I was wondering what happened to it....

I do remember something like that from when I was a kid. A million million or something? Or a thousand with a thousand zeros? Something like that.

[Fist and Faith]

IIRC, Sagan said you couldn't stuff the amount of paper it would take to write the number googleplex into the known universe. At least at whatever size font he was talking about. But nothing huge. Maybe a half-inch high? A google of 0's is quite a few!

[Vain]

A google is 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googleplex is so large that if you had a piece of paper the size of the universe - it wouldn't be big enough to write all the zeros Well that's how I recall it from watching Cosmos when I was a kid

[balon!]

IIRC, Sagan said you couldn't stuff the amount of paper it would take to write the number googleplex into the known universe. At least at whatever size font he was talking about. But nothing huge. Maybe a half-inch high? A google of 0's is quite a few!

I think I wrote it out on time when I was eight. Took three pieces of paper for me.

[The Laughing Man]

good thing I didn't start a thread: a picture's worth a google words!

[Vain]

On a lesser note, I understand that a trillion follows a billion

[Vain]

For more, go here:

www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

[balon!]

I'll be damned.

Skewes' number (gesundheit) is 10^10^10^34 was used as an upper bound in a mathematical proof.

I guess we sort of DO have a top cap. At least, when it comes to using it as proof or an actual WORKING number.

[The Laughing Man]

On a lesser note, I understand that a trillion follows a billion

those are some pretty big words, mister.

[Vain]

And I'm not even going to Berkley

[I'm Murrin]

Graham's Number

It is too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of atoms in the observable universe so it needs its own special notation (G) to write down. Graham's number is much larger than other well known large numbers such as a googol and a googolplex, and even larger than Skewes' number and Moser's number, other well-known large numbers.

[High Lord Tolkien]

Googleplex?
Please!
That's paltry.
You want the biggest number?
Zillion.
Case closed.




Hey all this talk about Cosmos has reminded me.
The History Channel is playing "The Universe" almost every night.
It's really good.
(I do long to hear Sagan say the word "billions" again though.)

[The Laughing Man]

oh please! zillion? how about gajillion? WAY huger.

[hierachy]

well I thought gadillion came after that... then kachillion.

[Fist and Faith]

I briefly mentioned infinites on my not-overly-well-received math thread.
kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=175413#175413

[Wyldewode]

I like math and all, but these kind of numbers boggle my mind. It's like thinking about the universe, and how it has no center, and no edge. Heavy stuff, man!

[The Laughing Man]

Graham's Number

It is too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of atoms in the observable universe so it needs its own special notation (G) to write down. Graham's number is much larger than other well known large numbers such as a googol and a googolplex, and even larger than Skewes' number and Moser's number, other well-known large numbers.

leave it to a mathmetician to create a number that doesn't exist.

[Cagliostro]

I say that we, the members of Kevin's Watch, create the largest number known to man.

What should we call it?