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Big Numbers (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 94 points 4 months ago

Infinity is technically not a number tho 🤓☝️

[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

The boss isn't an employee either 😎

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Definitely not a real number.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Not an imaginary number either

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They all are, except the imaginary ones

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They seemed a bit too complex to bring up.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

It's not the number that makes something big, it's what it's counting. 67,502 atoms isn't very impressive, but 1 universe is!

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

8 is a big number of gunshot wounds.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

50 is that you?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

That's a pretty unimpressive number of universes, though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Not really, though. Big numbers are a separate branch of mathematics. A googolplex, for instance is more than the number of atoms in the observable universe, but it's way smaller than grahams number.

What it counts is not exactly the point is more of a definition exercise of what the upper bound is of what we can imagine it put in words. Sometimes it has functionality, such as the largest Mersenne prime.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Its more impressive to count 67502 atoms than to count 1 universe

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

"67,502! 67,502 atoms, ah, ah, ah!"

thunder and lightning

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

thunder and lightning

Very, very frightning me

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Five! Five Galileos, ah, ah, ah!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

9136 looks so excited to be in their presence. I wonder if that was intentional (starting the number with a 9, which, coupled with the eye, makes a left-facing face) or happenstance.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Good artists think of all those things. Note how the 9 “opened up” more to be like smiling and standing at greater attention in respect, and in the other the number the 2 has it’s foot tucked behind itself in shame as it’s apologizing. Good stuff :-)

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