Found this article by mistake a while ago while coding my infinite canvas drawing application. It's not exactly what I was looking for but it brought me to a place that I'd never have expected....
Found this article by mistake a while ago while coding my infinite canvas drawing application. It's not exactly what I was looking for but it brought me to a place that I'd never have expected.
The question is simple but I think it quickly takes a philosophical turn.
Thank you for that. I knew vaguely about busy beavers in the context of big numbers, but I had no idea of why they were so big. And it all being written in a very digestible way. It was also...
Thank you for that. I knew vaguely about busy beavers in the context of big numbers, but I had no idea of why they were so big. And it all being written in a very digestible way. It was also interesting to see this ending up being about growth of sequences. It would've been interesting to know more about some of the larger numbers/sequences and how they compare and relate.
This Numberphile video about subcubic graphic numbers gets to big numbers using (in my opinion) a much more interesting method than just continuing to recursively repeat operations. I like the...
This Numberphile video about subcubic graphic numbers gets to big numbers using (in my opinion) a much more interesting method than just continuing to recursively repeat operations.
I like the notion of ideas that we can define yet also defy the scale of numbers we can write down.
TIL I can no longer correctly spell googolplex... thanks Google.
I think it was Milton Sirotta who spelled it wrong.
Found this article by mistake a while ago while coding my infinite canvas drawing application. It's not exactly what I was looking for but it brought me to a place that I'd never have expected.
The question is simple but I think it quickly takes a philosophical turn.
Thank you for that. I knew vaguely about busy beavers in the context of big numbers, but I had no idea of why they were so big. And it all being written in a very digestible way. It was also interesting to see this ending up being about growth of sequences. It would've been interesting to know more about some of the larger numbers/sequences and how they compare and relate.
This Numberphile video about subcubic graphic numbers gets to big numbers using (in my opinion) a much more interesting method than just continuing to recursively repeat operations.
I like the notion of ideas that we can define yet also defy the scale of numbers we can write down.