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bruh_duh@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Big Numbers

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bruh_duh@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 3 months ago
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    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!

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      8 is a big number of gunshot wounds.

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        50 is that you?

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

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          99.999% certain*

          You cant exclude the chance conspiracy theorists are right

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        It’s the most that’s ever existed

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      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.

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

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        “67,502! 67,502 atoms, ah, ah, ah!”

        thunder and lightning

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          thunder and lightning

          Very, very frightning me

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            Five! Five Galileos, ah, ah, ah!

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      There’s only one everything!

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