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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Lemminary@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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“what is the biggest number”

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The biggest number in the world is so big that mathematicians don't even think it exists.

Top 5 biggest numbers, according to me.

  1. 5
  2. 1 Million
  3. 100 Billion
  4. 999 Trillion
  5. Brazillian

Original post: https://xcancel.com/ChatgptLunatics/status/1995441330986598532

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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's true. If you ask a mathematician what number is the biggest they won't give you a straight answer.

Like, what even is an aleph?

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

In set theory, sets containing an infinite number things are relatively easy to describe. For example, "All the counting numbers" is a set with an infinite number of things in it.

Many sets with an infinite number of things have a one to one correspondence to each other, meaning that we can describe a function that takes elements of one set as an input, gives elements of the other set as an output, and spans both sets - no element is skipped on either side.

"All the even counting numbers" has a one to one correspondence with "All the counting numbers". You can look into Hilbert's Hotel for a good demonstration of how this works.

Not all sets with an infinite number of things correspond with the set of all counting numbers, because some are fundamentally bigger. This difference in size doesn't happen just once (e.g. there are countably infinite sets, and uncountably infinite sets, and that's all we need to know), there are actually an infinite number of sets of progressively bigger infinite numbers of elements.

Because this is a confusing mess, we needed a way to keep track of how infinitely big each infinitely big set is, and the aleph cardinalities are the preferred way to do that. Any set with cardinality of aleph zero (aka "aleph null") has a one to one correspondence with any other set with cardinality aleph zero. The same is true for every other aleph cardinality. Two sets of cardinality aleph thirty seven have a one to one correspondence with each other.

Anyways, busy beaver(tree(aleph omega)) is the biggest number.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure they were being sarcastic. I mean they know the word aleph which strongly indicates they know what sets of infinite numbers are.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago
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[-] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago

-ant! Finish your words, it's not that hard!

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[-] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 50 points 2 months ago
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[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

I heard there was a earthquake in Rio de Janeiro. The casualties were in the Brazilians.

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[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago
[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 22 points 2 months ago

This is the AI I want. Like pure early day chaos where Will Smith couldn't eat spaghetti, that Forever Seinfeld on twitch, the weird recipes like 80lbs of salt.

[-] xep@discuss.online 20 points 2 months ago

That's Numberwang! It's time to rotate the board.

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[-] Object@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Every time I see one of those AI fuckups and try it myself, it never works :/

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago

It's pretty easy to fake one using the developer tools in your browser.

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

They aren’t deterministic. There are a few common ones that are cached, but if you get bad (or good?) RNG in the response generation you’ll never manage to get the same result as someone else.

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[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

To be fair, there are a ton of people living in Brazil. There are like, Brazillians of them.

[-] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 2 months ago
[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

ahem.

Brazillian?

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago
[-] mtpender@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago

"God damn Loch Ness monster!"

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I always liked Graham's Number. I didn't like that it was TREE(1)=1, TREE(2)=3, and TREE(3) dwarfs even Graham's Number. At least G=g_64 which is built up from g_1.

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

You just sent me down a rabbit hole learning about TREE(3), thank you

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[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago
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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

1 Brazillian.

No, 1 Hollywood.

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 2 months ago
[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Tbf, some infinities are bigger than others.

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I want a Brazilian dollars lol

[-] postcapitalism@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

Honestly this is a great answer

[-] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Well, guess I am a number now

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I always knew I could count on you

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I was looking for doc's age in the movie...

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[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 9 points 2 months ago

"Pick a number - any number - between one and one Brazilian. Don't tell me the number. Now multiply it by 3..."

This is likely fake, but still funny. I just tried it and got a reasonable answer.

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago

Could still be real. Ai will give different answers to the same question.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's quite plausibly real. Gemini can def get in shitposty basins and has historically had a fairly inconsistent coherence across samples.

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[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Biggest signed 32 bit integer i can do gets to 2038

[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

24 is the highest number.

24 is the highest number.

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYyS0L0uJ7A

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[-] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Garbage in, garbage out

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haha, this reminds me of sitting in bed with my 4 year old talking about big numbers.

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

If this is real an unedited... maybe ai wasnt a mistake

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The biggest number is TREE(3)

[-] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

Here's a fun game: ask gemini to accurately represent all digits in the largest number possible with a 64-bit float. So far I've gotten 0,000 and a 65,013-digit number that's mostly zeroes.

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[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago
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