What is the highest number?
If any of you suggest, I have thought about 'Infinite' and that is really not a proper number now is it?
2006-07-10 04:25:32 · 17 answers · asked by Emy 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
I know that about Infinite!!!! I am asking what you think is the highest number - dont go on about Infinity
2006-07-10 04:31:05 · update #1
Hey, there have been more idiotic and more pointless questions then this one that I'm asking!!!
2006-07-10 05:16:09 · update #2
Well if you want to put a number to it, try infinite minus one (which is still infinite but it might put your mind at rest) ohterwise there are some big numbers out there and I quite like the googleplex as the highest defined number with a name (a googleplex is a googol to the power of a googol and a googol is a one with a hundred noughts after it).
2006-07-10 04:32:12 · answer #1 · answered by nkellingley@btinternet.com 5 · 3⤊ 6⤋
Although there IS no highest number, the highest number for which we have a name, is the Google. It's one followed by 100 zeros - i.e. "10 to the 100"
However, this is meaningless, because if you were to count all the atome in the galaxy, that wouldn't get much above 10 to the 43, and the number of atomes in all the estimated billion galaxies is 10 to the 52. So a bit pointless really.
2006-07-10 05:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assume that there is some highest number. Call it n.
Then n+1 is again a number, and n+1 > n, contradicting the maximality of n.
There is no highest number. The point of "infinity" is to have something that can be treated as a highest number, in some respects.
2006-07-10 04:30:30 · answer #3 · answered by AnyMouse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9
2006-07-10 04:35:49 · answer #4 · answered by brokeneyebounce 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The largest number is infinite because there is no stopping point. However here is the largest prime number ever found.The prime number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out. It is more than 2 million digits larger than the previous largest known prime number. Discovered by Michigan State University.
2006-07-10 05:40:34 · answer #5 · answered by DoctaB01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no highest number, that is why the concept of infinity was introduced in the first place
2006-07-10 05:28:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats easy the highest NUMBER is 9 . if said highest NUMBERS then that would of been a struggle. so my answer is 9
2006-07-10 04:35:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technichly infinity is not a real number but there is no end to numbers and that is why we have made infinity.
2006-07-10 04:27:39 · answer #8 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest number, by definition, is Aleph one - a transfinite number. It's used in mathematics.
2006-07-10 06:53:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I belive that in the "N space" there's no proper number but in the "IR space" you can say it's the x that its limit is infinite.
2006-07-10 04:33:33 · answer #10 · answered by Mary7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋