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do you mind linking to what you read on Graham's number? The wikipedia is interesting, but it seems like you found something more so



Not OP, but Wait But Why did a great article on it a few weeks ago:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html


I have always enjoyed Numberphile and here is the man himself (Graham) explaining it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigptwlVHo


If you like big numbers, this article is a must read:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html


Wildberger recently provided a more systematic approach (though Graham's number is not mentioned explicitly) to hyperoperations in one of his videos [0]. He also discusses some implications of working with numbers so large (including in other videos of the series).

[0] https://youtu.be/Wv65xhrJ0zc


you might enjoy reading the analysis of loader.c number here:

http://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt




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