what is the highest number?

Question

in america

Answer 1

There is no end to numbers it goes on forever

Answer 2

A deceivingly simple question. There is, of course, no "highest" number, because numbers go on forever. Whatever you count to, someone can go one higher.

So, what we are working with here is the highest COUNTED number, and the highest NAMED number.

By counted, I mean a number that is the result of an actual calculation -not something made up. And for that, I'll nominate the latest calculation of pi -the one that's typically expressed as 3.14 -the constant for figuring the area of a circle. The fractional equivalent is 22/7 (22 divided by 7). Putting that in the Google calculator gives me 3.14285714. But mathematicians have used big computers to do the job, and the a recent result I can find is:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072624914127372458700660631558817488152092096282925409171536436789259036001133053054882046652138414695194151160943305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854807446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912...

(You'll need to hover your mouse over the above to see the whole thing -Yahoo slices it down).

and it goes on from there, column, after column. See the whole thing at:

http://www.super-computing.org/pi-decimal_current.html

That is a number so BIG I don't even know how to say it, but it is an honestly calculated value.

Big as that number is, it pales in comparison to "named" numbers. By "named," I mean numbers that no one has actually counted to yet (1,2,3...) or calculated (like taking pi times itself). We're talking about possible numbers that legitimate mathematicians have made up. I believe that a the "Moser" still holds the record, being bigger, even, then a "googleplex." It is based on a calculation involving line segments expressed in the initial formula:

n^n

and it goes on from there. The Moser and the google and googleplex -other popular numbers with the slide-rule set, are all discussed at:

http://www.sci.wsu.edu/math/faculty/hudelson/moser.html

Don't let the excitement terrify you.

As a sidebar, while numbers seem about as far from prayer as anything can be, they have actually been critical in some Buddhist worship. It works in somewhat the same was as 2 kids arguning over how much they hate each other, as in "I hate you 100 times more than you hate me!" To which the response is, "Oh yeah, well a hate you a million-billion times THAT!"

Very devout Buddhists monks have "multplied" their prayers by saying basically, "God, take this prayer times..." and then they name a large number, and then say to take the result times the same large number again; and THEN say to do that again -and so on. Talk about broadband.

I note you ask about "in America." There is a difference between the meaning of the "lower" large numbers that are actually used -for example, in finance. Here's a site that explains the differences:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintillion

I hope this has satisfied your craving for numerical trivia.

Answer 3

shes talking about soccer jerseys
and the answer is 99, ive seen it on a goalkeeper from brasil long time ago but i actually dont remember the name, but its the highest number because more than 2 numbers in the back of the jersey is illegal

Answer 4

Is this a soccer question or a number question? I don't like soccer, but I do like numbers. Your number answer is equal to whatever highest number you can think of in your country plus one. In other words "To Infinity and Beyond." Your soccer answer is, I don't know, and I don't really care.

Answer 5

"The highest number in the world is actually called a "google". It is a one with a hundred million zeroes after it or somethong like that , but even that you can still add one. In any event it is called a google."

Answer 6

What? 99999999999999^999999999999999999 that is one big number oh shes talking about the world cup people

Answer 7

25, quarter the country drives on quarter.

Answer 8

The national deficit must be it.

Answer 9

maybe i will tell u if u post this Q in right section hun

Answer 10

hold on let me count

1..2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

the answer is 8 lol