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Any number you want, by the flawed logic of your question.

2007-05-04 02:47:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

This is the kind of question that you can't answer within the bounds of logic. It reminded me a cool little paradox that goes like this:

Consider S, the set of all numbers that can be expressed as a sentence in the English language of no more than a thousand letters. For example, "This is the number of legs of a common dog." would describe the number 4.

Since there are a finite number of letters, this set must be finite. Therefore, there must exist some numbers that cannot be expressed as a sentence of the English language of no more than a tousand letters.

Now, consider the sentence:
"This number is the smallest positive integer that cannot be expressed as a sentence of the English language of no more than one thousand letters."

Clearly, this number exists. The set (N - S) is nonempty (because S is finite) and therefore must have a smallest element x.

The above sentence sentence describes x precisely - demonstrating that x can be described in 1000 letters or less. Therefore x is an element of S... but wait, we just said that x is an element of (N-S)... wha buh huh what??!?

Has your head exploded yet?

2007-05-04 03:04:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Well, you could start off with 999 duotrigintillion, 999 untrigintillion, and keep going down the line. The duotrigintillion (10^99) was the largest named number that I could find with a quick search.

2007-05-04 03:09:35 · answer #3 · answered by dogsafire 7 · 0 1

I would post the number but then I would get banned/deleted for flooding.

2007-05-04 02:52:25 · answer #4 · answered by Matt 3 · 0 0

infinity
or is that just really a concept

2007-05-04 03:34:30 · answer #5 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0 1

infinity

2007-05-04 03:22:08 · answer #6 · answered by skcs11 7 · 1 1

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