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To: LibWhacker
one example they give in the paper equates to 10214857091104455251940635045059417341952, which is a very, very, very big number.

Actually, one of the smallest numbers there is. Admittedly, one the largest numbers you will ever encounter, but there are infinitely more numbers larger than it, and only a finite number smaller.

6 posted on 10/22/2019 2:24:13 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Be vewy, vewy quiet. Adam Fudd is hunting Wussians!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“If the result is correct...”.

There’s only one correct result to two numbers multiplied. How will they know it’s correct?


13 posted on 10/22/2019 3:38:35 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Actually, there are an infinite number smaller as well.


27 posted on 10/22/2019 5:26:25 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Infinity plus one! Ha!


34 posted on 10/22/2019 6:03:22 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (A law means nothing if it isnÂ’t followed.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Actually, one of the smallest numbers there is. Admittedly, one the largest numbers you will ever encounter, but there are infinitely more numbers larger than it, and only a finite number smaller.

But one will always be the loneliest number.

42 posted on 10/22/2019 7:50:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Now that’s a beautiful example of how sometimes pedantry can be utterly hilarious!

Well done, sirrah!


46 posted on 10/22/2019 10:20:33 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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