Write/describe the largest finite number you possibly can in one post. You may use any amount of functions, numbers, or operations you know of or can come up with. As long as your number is unambiguously expressed, it counts. Please do not use any references (google/books/calculators/etc.) Just your noggin' if you please! Of course you can work stuff out on a piece of paper if you need, but I'd prefer to see what people come up with without consulting any references outside their brain.
Please post your response without reading any of the other replies in this thread
This is an interesting experiment I recently did with one of my classes and I'd love to see what people come up with here.
After this goes on for awhile, I'll post some of the more clever answers my students gave.
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What's the largest number you can come up with?
Started by sooner123, Jul 28 2011 09:06 AM
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 09:20 AM
Well there's always calling the Ackermann function with Graham's number.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 10:27 AM
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 10:30 AM
Wouldn't you also be disqualified if someone quoted this formula since it would no longer be a finite number?
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Could pass the depth of recursion as an argument and terminate with a finite number at a certain depth.
But I was hoping for posts that didn't reference other posts
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:02 AM
- Get maximum storage space allowed for one forum post, or remaining hard drive space on the forum server, whichever is smaller.
- Determine ZLIB block representing the most possible 0xFF bytes in a row.
- Repeat this ZLIB block until there is no more space available.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:03 AM
Write/describe the largest finite number you possibly can in one post. You may use any amount of functions, numbers, or operations you know of or can come up with. As long as your number is unambiguously expressed, it counts. Please do not use any references (google/books/calculators/etc.) Just your noggin' if you please! Of course you can work stuff out on a piece of paper if you need, but I'd prefer to see what people come up with without consulting any references outside their brain.
Please post your response without reading any of the other replies in this thread
This is an interesting experiment I recently did with one of my classes and I'd love to see what people come up with here.
After this goes on for awhile, I'll post some of the more clever answers my students gave.
Easy. I would use three strings with various operations and algorithm to display it. Pretty easy, but I will not release my new top secret patented copyrighted trademark. As a matter of fact I would recommend using that for games because using 32 bit floating point values just for calculations and displaying seems a bit too much now unless someone needs to cram more than a million floating point values in their test application
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:57 AM
NOTE: The uncompressed data is to be interpreted in unsigned form.
- Get maximum storage space allowed for one forum post, or remaining hard drive space on the forum server, whichever is smaller.
- Determine ZLIB block representing the most possible 0xFF bytes in a row.
- Repeat this ZLIB block until there is no more space available.
Your post started out so promising. Then you didn't know about the busy beaver and I was disappointed.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 12:03 PM
The number of times I have played StarCraft.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 12:20 PM
NOTE: The uncompressed data is to be interpreted in unsigned form.
- Get maximum storage space allowed for one forum post, or remaining hard drive space on the forum server, whichever is smaller.
- Determine ZLIB block representing the most possible 0xFF bytes in a row.
- Repeat this ZLIB block until there is no more space available.
Your post started out so promising. Then you didn't know about the busy beaver and I was disappointed.
Yeah, I'm definitely more implementation-oriented than theory-oriented and don't have the slightest clue what a busy beaver is. It was dangerous for me to post in a theory-oriented thread, wasn't it?
