The Biggest Number in the World
Long-time forum member Ben Driscoll has been posting his webcomic Daisy Owl in the forum since July. Today, we bring you a comic that your brain might not be able to handle.
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To bore you for a moment, the largest named number with a use is actually called Grahams number. It is the upper bound to a particular puzzle and is so mind bogglingly large it requires special notation to represent on paper. Googolplexs are rendered insignificant in comparison and it goes well beyond any normal examples like particles in the universe etc. So its pretty big is what Im saying.
ReplyThe biggest number in the world is π. End of Story.
Replyare you f*****g stupid?
Only until you discover cake.
the bigest number is 99cention
ReplyPolly....
Reply... touché. Well played sir. I just shit my mind out of my balls.
no...no....
Actually the biggest number is twenty-two trillion and a half. I just blew your f*cking minds.
ReplyBecause sextillion doesn't exist right? Oh please...
I spazzed once. I dont wanna talk about it.
ReplyAnd Kipouros, I know that this is a joke website. You see how what I said made other people laugh? or did you miss that because you are really smart?
Either way, if you have ever been on youtube, you could see how I could have honestly thought you were serious.
Eat shit and die, I hope your family gets raped by hippies.
:) Kisses.
Get a sense of humor and come back. Nothing you said made anyone laugh. Ever.
May you be perpetually ass-fucked by Ron Jeremy,
Jay
Holy s**t, dude, relax.
Yeah, suckmebeautiful seems like a real spaz.
Replydear suckmebeautiful,
Replythis is a joke website. no idiot would ever believe that 45 billion is the largest number, its from a show called look around you that just starting airing on adult swim at 1 am on sundays.
youre a douche,
kipouros
dalekiloveyou, go fucking die you worthless spammer.
Replyand this comic blows, not funny.
suckmebeautiful: Are you on crack? Relax. There is a fair chance the man was joking. There are far better reasons to hate other people.
ReplyI lol'd.
Replyto Kipouros: Are you serious or making a fucking joke? You honestly believe that "mathematicians" claim the largest number is 45 billion? Ok, let's go with that... Im gonna blow your mind right now. Are you ready? 45 billion + 2. Do the math. Holy shit! Did I just create a new number?!?!? THE BIGGEST IN THE WORLD?!?!
ReplyYou are the reason people hate other people.
ARE YOU A WIZARD
It's dark magic!
the largest number is actually 45 billion.. but some mathmaticians believe there could be even larger numbers
ReplyMaths stands for "Mathematical Anti Telharsic Harfatum Septomin".
Thanks, cubs. Thubs.
to infinity and beyond!
ReplyThejoshualee, it's explained why he threw up in the next comic.
ReplyOn another note, the face the dude made when he threw up is hilarious.
Ganon: I'll bring you a vertical line if you want. It has a slope of infinity. You might call it cheating, but it represents the fact that numbers are used in many other ways than counting.
ReplyBut as far as Really Large Numbers go, Graham's number takes the cake.
When I first read about that number, I was like holy shit, you just took maths to the next level!
He puked!
ReplyI'm not so sure about that. As it usually goes in mathematics, we construct an object and then "discover" its properties. In a way it can be said that all mathematics is created by us, we just don't immediately realize the implications of out creations. In any case, weather mathematics is created or discovered in a very non-trivial question. I think people are leaning more on mathematics being created, maybe because we keep coming up with something so weird that nothing in the real world corresponds to it.
ReplyThat can't be said about numbers though.
Completely awesome.
ReplyIf you have to have it explained to you, or if you try to posture some grand reason behind it, then it's not for you.
Not at all, actually. Numbers are constant values created by constant objects. It doesn't matter if you call the number one "uno" or "dirty sanchez" or even call it anything for that matter. Ultimately, it represents something that is finite. Numbers aren't created by us. We observe numbers. We observe patterns. Math is a process of discovery, not creation.
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