Posted on 11/28/2022 1:43:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
So what’s the point? Not enough material in the universe to write the number. How is it relevant to anything if it can’t be used? Get a life.
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One of the purposes of math is to expand our understanding of the universe. Sometimes seemingly impractical or esoteric knowledge can prove useful, or lead to a deeper understanding of other problems. Math is logic.
Long ago, a mathematician invented the concept of zero. What is it? it’s nothing. But it’s probably one of the most powerful discoveries of modern mathematics.
You missed my pint entirely.
You missed my pint entirely.
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Apparently I did miss the pint. I hate missing a pint.
On par with Georg Cantor, perhaps? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_paradox
Didn’t Seinfeld have a show about that?
:-)
That’s become known as Biden’s number which is any number of votes a democrat needs to steal an election. It’s much higher than any of the other numbers in the article.
“If all the material in the universe...” Yeah, well. News flash: numbers are imaginary. No number needs to be written on a physical paper with physical ink. Aristotle knew this 340 BC. The largest number is reasonably theorized and fuzzily imagined.
It’s like helping Joe Sixpack understand the price of something by saying “dollar bills stacked to the moon.”
It is fascinating to say “there isn’t enough material in the universe to print out the biggest number.”
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