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		oersted 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm o... Numberphile has also built-up a fantastic collection of videos over the years about unfathomably large finite numbers: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJ_FwchNAjB3xa8... The tools required to probe and compare these monsters are so interesting.

lisper 6 months ago | [–]

This too:

https://www.mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html

oersted 6 months ago | | [–]

Cool wiki linked there: https://googology.fandom.com/wiki/Googology_Wiki

cortesoft 6 months ago | [–]

Reminds me of the Scott Aaronson essay ["Who Can Name the Bigger Number"](https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html)

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