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#26 2012-05-14 03:57:42
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#27 2012-05-14 04:33:15
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hi
Can you prove this is bigger than the number from post #23 ?
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#28 2012-05-14 05:28:48
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Yup.Your number has 27 digits (look at wolfram's output).Mine clearly has 51. 
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#29 2012-05-14 17:29:39
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Fair enough. I bow to your use of Wolfram to actually calculate the number.
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#30 2012-05-14 20:53:40
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I didn't calculate the whole number. It showed it in tge form a.bcdefg... x 10^26. There were a few more digits in the decimal,but tge number still stays 27 digits long. What is your number?
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#31 2012-05-15 17:32:54
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So I'll have
This number needs no computation as such but if you wanted to write it down, then, at one digit per second, you could do it in half a year.
You haven't set a limit on how much paper I am allowed.
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#32 2012-05-15 22:12:26
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Computers can carry out those computations in quite a reasonable time,so I think it would be accepted. You can even get a closed form of that by hand and it becomes quite obvious what the number is.
My number is (((3!)!)!)!
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#33 2012-05-16 05:09:39
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There is no such thing biggest number but bigger number because of the fact 1/x is too big when x=0. If there is such thing biggest number, it could always be 1 because the infinite universe was confined in a single unit when t=0s during the big bang:)
#34 2012-05-16 06:14:07
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Yes,that is right. But the point is finding a bigger number than somwbody else in the quest of searching for the biggest number,which of course doesn't exist.
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#35 2012-05-16 08:25:53
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anonimnystefy wrote:
My number is (((3!)!)!)!
And my number is
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#36 2012-05-16 14:58:05
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2**googolplex
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#37 2012-05-16 17:07:39
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Wooah! Are you planning to compute this number in half a year?
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#38 2012-05-16 18:40:04
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anonimnystefy wrote:
2**googolplex
The smallest number apart from 0 and 1 which is a perfect square, cube, fourth, fifth, ..... and googolplexth power.
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#39 2012-05-16 21:58:05
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Apparently it is 10^10^10^2 away from ganesh's number.
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#40 2012-05-16 22:27:05
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Are you planning to compute this number in half a year?
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#41 2012-05-16 22:27:16
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Hi anonimnystefy,
The smallest number apart from 0 and 1 which is a perfect square, cube, fourth, fifth, ...., and one thousandth power is roughly
The number which is the smallest number apart from 0 and 1 which is a perfect square, cube, fourth, fifth, .... and googolplexth power which would be much much greater!
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#42 2012-05-16 22:29:18
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But I want to know that you can compute these suggestions.
Your number must also be computable in a reasonable amount of time (e.g. Within half a year ).
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#43 2012-05-16 22:33:53
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I think it will be better if ganesh answred that question,cause mine is just a one added to the 10^10^2 place.
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#44 2012-05-16 22:47:45
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PS. Wolfram says 4^4^4^4 is less than (((3!)!)!)!
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#45 2012-05-16 22:54:37
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I estimate the number by rough calculation. The answer would be roughly lesser than
.I am not sure with the powers. The only I may say with some degree of accuracy is the upper limit seems relatively certain.
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#46 2012-05-16 22:57:31
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anonimnystefy wrote:
PS. Wolfram says 4^4^4^4 is less than (((3!)!)!)!
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#47 2012-05-16 23:06:15
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I think you are right. Your number is bigger.
I overlooked the number of factorial symbols.
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#48 2012-05-16 23:12:25
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It's okay.
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#49 2012-05-16 23:13:52
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So am I correct that
(((3!)!)!)!
is the biggest so far that is computable?
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#50 2012-05-16 23:17:55
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Yup.
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“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón