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To: Red Badger

“Infinity never felt so close”

Spare me. 62 trillion digits? I’ve got about that much in storage devices somewhere in my desk.

You want a glimpse of infinity?
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
Get a bucket first, because you’re going to need a bucket for your brain after it melts while reading that.

Summary:
Graham’s Number is the largest known non-infinite number which answers a meaningful (albeit obscure) question. Expressing it is ... difficult. We’re talking “big” as in just the number of digits is vastly larger than packing the entire universe full of quarks and writing each digit of that number on a quark.
When that scale is understood, consider that it’s nigh unto nothing compared to infinity.

Calculate pi to Graham’s Number of digits, and consider you’re just barely getting started.
Infinity is very, very far away.


12 posted on 08/17/2021 7:51:51 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: ctdonath2

Infinity is 100^100^100^100^100 divided by zero.


15 posted on 08/17/2021 7:55:59 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ctdonath2

Next up: Guess a woman’s accurate weight.


47 posted on 08/17/2021 9:27:23 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: ctdonath2

That post about Grahams number was insane.


56 posted on 08/17/2021 1:29:49 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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