What is the biggest FINITE and computable number you can come up with? The winner get's 10 points!
2006-08-29 12:36:26 · 16 answers · asked by cchh1990 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
This is a contest with the winner getting best answer.
2006-08-29 12:39:41 · update #1
'computability' is a mathematical concept. It means you can`t say "this biggest number that can be expressed in 1000 words".
2006-08-29 12:48:10 · update #2
The whole "George Bush`s IQ+1?" thing was an attention grabber not the question itself.
2006-08-29 16:37:25 · update #3
Using Knuth's Arrow notation....
google ^ google = google x google x google...repeated a google times. It's simply an exponent, or a 'power'.
But how about google ^ ^ google? Which would be...
google ^ google ^ google....repeated a google times.
And I haven't even gotten started yet...
what about a triple arrow? google ^ ^ ^ google =
google ^ ^ google ^ ^ .....repeated a google times.
2006-08-29 20:10:26 · answer #1 · answered by Polymath 5 · 1⤊ 6⤋
100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000^2
or
9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9for999999999iterations
It seems that Yahoo has technical problems when attempting to display a large number of characters without spaces. The first number is (1 followed by 562 zeros)squared. The second number is 9^9 (nine to the nineth) for 999999999 iterations.
How about Avogadro's number (just use 6.0221367 x 10^23) as A and look at the number generated for (A^A)^A = A^A^A for A iterations.
Googleplex is the headquarters of Google Inc. If the largest number that has a commonly-known specific name is a "googolplex", which is a 1 followed by a googol zeros, where a "googol" is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, then let us define a "yahooplex as a googolplex to the googolplex."
A yahooplex would be finite, but perhaps not computable.
2006-08-29 23:05:47 · answer #2 · answered by Richard 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
thats 2 different question you're asking.
firstly, bush's IQ = negative infinity (however according to maths, negative infinity equal positive infinity but we'll ignore that for the sake of the joke).
secondly, there is no biggest computable number. given that you can program a computer to compute to binary 2^n, you can set n as anything you want. i.e the highest number it could compute is :-
2^(n - 1)
2006-08-29 19:53:01 · answer #3 · answered by vish 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont see how the questions are related so i shall approach the first one
george bush doenst even deserve negative infinty iq because the absolute value of that is a positive infinty and in his warped mind he'll think he's smart
he doesnt deserve a 0 either because that means he is getting a rating
i just say it doesnt exist is that alright?
2006-08-29 23:19:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computable? A 64-bit CPU can compute numbers up to 18446744073709551616.
2006-08-29 19:40:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no limit. Numbers are infinite. I can come up with a number as big as I can be bothered to. Anyone can. It's just a question of how may times they can be bothered to write (^googolplex). Your question sucks.
2006-08-30 08:47:27 · answer #6 · answered by Steve-Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My answer is 10. I learn't that all numbers greater than 10 are complex. Doh!
2006-08-30 08:45:45 · answer #7 · answered by David R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe 80
2006-08-30 01:59:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
googlplex is total BULLSHIT. Just some **** some moron made up to become famous probably. You want the biggest "conceivable number"? it is infinity. Or in terms of that stupid googlplex, try googlplex^infinity
2006-08-31 03:10:06 · answer #9 · answered by jaymay2008 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
googolplex^googolplex^googolplex^googolplex^googolplex
Too bad they won't like that number here in yahoo... hehe
Actually a googolplex is a number larger than the total number of electrons, protons and neutrons in the known universe.
2006-08-30 00:11:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
-100
2006-08-30 01:53:32 · answer #11 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋