A Number so Big that your Brain would Collapse into a Black Hole!

[sandmoth12]

Your head would collapse into a black hole if you memorized all of Graham's number, and it's part of an actual solution to a problem.

[Deleted]

You're head would collapse into a black hole if you memorized all of Graham's number, and it's part of an actual solution to a problem.

I'd imagine a savant could have a good go at it.

[SageKalzi]

You're head would collapse into a black hole if you memorized all of Graham's number, and it's part of an actual solution to a problem.

You're head would collapse into a black hole

You're

I don't mean to be rude but if you're going to post threads that are supposed to be about intelligent things then use the right word.

On Topic: Obviously some people have memorized it.

[sandmoth12]

I'd imagine a savant could have a good go at it.

All the computing combined computing power in the world could not calculate Graham's number.

[DEATHETERNAL]

I have never seen that arrow notation before. When civil engineers deal with things bigger than the universe (lol), maybe we will have use for it then.

I don't mean to be rude but if you're going to post threads that are supposed to be about intelligent things then use the right word.

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."

All the computing combined computing power in the world could not calculate Graham's number.

Hopefully once we figure out a means of three dimensional memory storage and have computers use it to process and store information in an infinitely higher base than base 2 (if not a near infinite base), we will be able to do so.

*tells new supercomputer to calculate Graham’s number*
*supercomputer says Graham’s number is 42*

[Simmias]

they already have and no black hole has been created. Go figure.

[checking facts]

they already have and no black hole has been created. Go figure.

no one can even imagine the true dimension of that number. watch the video, or read about it on wikipedia, or something.

[Simmias]

no one can even imagine the true dimension of that number. watch the video, or read about it on wikipedia, or something.

or just use common sense. It's been done and oh look, the world is fine.

[Garnier Fructis]

or just use common sense. It's been done and oh look, the world is fine.

I won't hold my breath waiting for the source.

[Simmias]

Must be hard to be the type of person who can't search for things on their own. Life is going to be harsh for you.

[Beefsquatch]

Must be hard to be the type of person who can't search for things on their own. Life is going to be harsh for you.

When you are trying to argue or prove a point, you bring in facts to the table. Not the other way around. Failure to do so will make people look at and treat you like the village idiot.

[Garnier Fructis]

Must be hard to be the type of person who can't search for things on their own. Life is going to be harsh for you.

Describing how one would calculate it and actually calculating it are two different things. To say that it's been done when the total number of Planck volumes in the universe can't even store a fraction of this number's representation requires a source, which you seem to be desperately trying to avoid providing.

[v2prwsmb45yhuq3wj23vpjk]

Graham's Number has had a few of its digits calculated, but that is it.

With irrational numbers like Pi, you list it like 3.14... where the ellipsis means it goes on forever.

With Graham's number, you list it like ...7, which basically means "A bunch of shit has been happening for fucking forever, like so large that it seems bigger than infinity, but it definitely ends in 7."

[Evelyn]

3 upvotes, 3 upvotes, 3 upvotes to the 3rd power!

[Foosha]

Graham's Number has had a few of its digits calculated, but that is it.

With irrational numbers like Pi, you list it like 3.14... where the ellipsis means it goes on forever.

With Graham's number, you list it like ...7, which basically means "A bunch of shit has been happening for fucking forever, like so large that it seems bigger than infinity, but it definitely ends in 7."

What if this number had blueprints for infinite energy? Or faster than light space travel etc... Sorta like Carl Sagan's Cosmos. We need to get on this ASAP!

[Dendrek]

or just use common sense. It's been done and oh look, the world is fine.

You seem to be missing the fact that it's never been written in base 10 notation, nor can it ever be.

Let's say that this ---------- is 1 hundred digits long. (The actual length of 100 digits would be much longer than that without writing in really small numbers. For example
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890
is 100 digits written in the smallest letters this forum can show. But for our hypothetical, we'll assume we can write it ---------- this small.

Then 1000 digits would be
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10,000 digits would be
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100,000 digits would look like spam at this point, so we'll reduce the scale even further. Imagine the above (10,000) was this small: ----------. Again, I'm saying ---------- is actually
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and that ^ is actually
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890
written 100 times.

So if ---------- is 10,000 digits, then the digits we're seeing are so small we'd need a microscope to actually see them.
100,000 then would look like:
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And 1 million would look like:
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Now take 1000 of the above to create 1 billion digits. One thousand of that billion digits to visualize 1 trillion digits, and so on. You've certainly reached a point where you can't even imagine seeing the number I'm describing. Now imagine a number where every one of those individual dashes (-) is actually a trillion digits. Now imagine a number were every dash is actually a trillion-trillion digits. You haven't even come close to the size of Graham's number.

[Clockwork Pinkie]

Basically it's so big that you can't even describe it with a number because trying to describe the number you're describing the number with is also stupidly big. Like measuring the universe in centimeters. And if you try to actually say the number, or write it down, you would probably die of old age.

[belfpala]

I bet I could think of a bigger number.

[Clockwork Pinkie]

We can understand values like infinity, just think about that.

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(Graham's number)x(Graham's number)x(Graham's number)

Graham's Numberˆ∞

[Adam Jensen]

I'd imagine a savant could have a good go at it.

Not at all. The first step of the algorithm alone produce an unimaginably huge number, and there are sixty three steps following it that just become even more ridiculously big.

There are fewer planck volumes (1 planck unit by 1 planck unit by 1 planck unit) in the observable universe, than there are digits in this number.