People talk about stuff like a villion and one or 2 villion but apparently when scientists try to write to deal with bigger numbers than a villion it makes their brains swell and they get violent nosebleeds because it's not humanly possible.
Apparently there is no bigger number, once you hit a villion you've maxed out the whole number scene and you enter a weird limbo where the laws of numeracy breakdown.
Is this true or just simply damn true?
2007-07-28 05:02:29 · 18 answers · asked by doctorwand 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
When I went to school we used paper and pencils--gym class was as much fun as slicing up frogs. Anyway, in math class where I learned my goes-in-ta's the largest number then was Kagillion. Now someone has got a new number and I did not know that villion exhisted. WOW the computer age is sure fasinating.
2007-07-28 05:15:46 · answer #1 · answered by Gerald 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 villion is not the biggest number
as i already saw 1 villion+1 ?
the term 'villion' ..uhmm... does not really ring a bell
i think this is why larger numbers are better presented in a form like for example 4.545E+45 or so.
There are a few XXXXillions be mentioned here and there, but i find using this sort of naming a total waste of time cause noone is really used to numbers larger 999 billion.
to make it even more confusing other languages use other names even for 1 billion .. in german its called '1 Milliarde'
lets call it 1*10^9 and we all know what we are talking about
2007-07-28 15:21:18 · answer #2 · answered by blondnirvana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of the biggest quite sort that has a particular call is the googolplex. it particularly is 10 raised to the ability of a googol. A googol is comparable to 10 ^ one hundred. So, a googolplex is a million observed by potential of a googol zeros. And sure, the appropriate spelling is googol, even nevertheless the seek engine (and extra commonplace vernacular) loves to spell it "google". understand that a googol is larger than what's to believed to be the form of atoms interior the traditional universe. 70 factorial is largely a tad larger than a googol, meaning there are over a googol a thank you to establish 70 various issues, which incorporate human beings in a line. And, as Carl Sagan suggested, a googolplex is as precisely far flung from infinity by using fact the type one. the biggest sort with the -illion sort call is the centillion that's 10^303, so it quite is larger than a googol. the biggest sort ever utilized in a serios mathematical info is Graham's sort, that's plenty larger that a googolplex and is in certainty so super that it demands a particular notation to place in writing. It too is in simple terms as far flung from infinity by using fact the type one. additionally, Kagillion, Infitillion, or Villion at the instant are not genuine names for numbers, and are made up. so which you will no longer learn them as they haven't any familiar cost. they are quite propose to symbolize arbitrary super numbers, like "bazillion" or "katrillion" or what have you ever. Infinity isn't a sort and has no cost. it quite is extra of an theory. additionally, there would be different infinities which would be larger than one yet another. as an occasion, the set of all advantageous integers is a limiteless set. The set of all integers, advantageous and unfavorable, is likewise a limiteless set that is composed of all the products from the advantageous integers and extra, so it quite is a "larger" infinity.
2016-10-09 12:05:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no biggest number. Just take your 1 villion, and add 1 to it. Now add 1 to that next number. Realize that you can do that again, and again, and again, all through eternity. There is no "biggest number"....it just goes on forever. It's like the old scholars of antiquity who tried to find the end of pi. They would work on solving it for years at a time to no avail. They finally realized it went on without repeating, and simply gave up. Likewise, there is no end of numbers.....it simply goes on forever! :)
2007-07-28 05:18:15 · answer #4 · answered by BonJoviFan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No part of your question is in any way related to mathematical reality. Something terrible has happened to cause you to become very confused about number systems and number theory.
It is not the way you describe it at all, and I would not begin to know how to clear this up for you. Please go and ask your teacher or a math tutor to spend some time explaining counting systems and number theory to you.
There is no order of magnitude named a "villion." I can't imagine where you got that idea. You need help.
2007-07-28 05:09:46 · answer #5 · answered by aviophage 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
What about 1 villion + 1? Or did I just blow your mind? Some would argue that 24 is the biggest number:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkP_OGDCLY0
2007-07-28 05:12:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Graham's number is the biggest number with a specific name yet has some meaning. It can't be written in a simple way. It makes Googleplexes look weak and insignificant. Look it up on Wiki.
2007-07-28 12:05:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with the first two. i don't know what r u talking about because i don't know what's villion, and there is probably no "biggest" number.
2007-07-28 06:26:28 · answer #8 · answered by Zero 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Villion
2016-10-16 11:26:24 · answer #9 · answered by berceir 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever the biggest number is - just add 1 to it then you have an even bigger number. There is no end to numbers, they are infinite.
2007-07-28 05:11:32 · answer #10 · answered by Buster 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋