2007-12-09 22:38:04 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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2007-12-09 22:45:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-12-10 07:15:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
theres no end. no matter what number you give someone could add one to it and it would be higher. there are certain numbers so large that they couldnt exist at all.
take for example a googolplex. it is 10^(10^100). it is 1 with a googol zeros after it. a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros. a google is larger than the number of elementary particles in the universe. therefore a googolplex is so very much larger. so large that no computer on earth could express a googol, muchless a googolplex.
2007-12-10 07:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I got this from www.math.toronto.edu
No "infinity" concept exists in the context of any number system, if by number system one means a collection of concepts that have operations like addition and multiplication the way familiar numbers do, operations which obey the usual properties of arithmetic.
One way to see this is to think, what would infinity minus 1 be? It couldn't be a finite number, since no finite number plus 1 equals infinity. So it must be infinite, and this would mean
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2007-12-10 07:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by 511@ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no bigger number than the biggest number that will ever exist now and forever.
2007-12-10 09:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's called "aleph-omega". This is *much* bigger than the number of countable numbers, *much* bigger than the number of points on the real line, *much* bigger than the number of curves in n-space, ... and so on.
2007-12-10 09:26:57 · answer #6 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Infinity.
Any other number can have 1 added to it.
2007-12-10 07:03:59 · answer #7 · answered by Pit Bull 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Mathematics of Probability Refutes "Coincidence"
What has been said so far shows the extraordinary balances among the forces that make human life possible in this universe. The speed of the Big Bang's explosion, the values of the four fundamental forces, and all the other variables that we will be examining in the chapters ahead and which are vital for existence have been arranged according to an extraordinary precision.
Let us now make a brief digression and consider the coincidence theory of materialism. Coincidence is a mathematical term and the possibility of an event's occurrence can be calculated using the mathematics of probability. Let's do so.
Taking the physical variables into account, what is the likelihood of a universe giving us life coming into existence by coincidence? One in billions of billions? Or trillions of trillions of trillions? Or more?
Roger Penrose, a famous British mathematician and a close friend of Stephen Hawking, wondered about this question and tried to calculate the probability. Including what he considered to be all variables required for human beings to exist and live on a planet such as ours, he computed the probability of this environment occurring among all the possible results of the Big Bang.
According to Penrose, the odds against such an occurrence were on the order of 1010123 to 1.
It is hard even to imagine what this number means. In math, the value 10123 means 1 followed by 123 zeros. (This is, by the way, more than the total number of atoms 1078 believed to exist in the whole universe.) But Penrose's answer is vastly more than this: It requires 1 followed by 10123 zeros.
Roger Penrose: "This number tells us how precise the Creator's aim must have been."
Or consider: 103 means 1,000, a thousand. 10103 is a number that that has 1 followed by 1000 zeros. If there are six zeros, it's called a million; if nine, a billion; if twelve, a trillion and so on. There is not even a name for a number that has 1 followed by 10123 zeros.
In practical terms, in mathematics, a probability of 1 in 1050 means "zero probability". Penrose's number is more than trillion trillion trillion times less than that. In short, Penrose's number tells us that the 'accidental" or "coincidental" creation of our universe is an impossibility.
Concerning this mind-boggling number Roger Penrose comments:
This now tells how precise the Creator's aim must have been, namely to an accuracy of one part in 1010123. This is an extraordinary figure. One could not possibly even write the number down in full in the ordinary denary notation: it would be 1 followed by 10123 successive 0's. Even if we were to write a 0 on each separate proton and on each separate neutron in the entire universe- and we could throw in all the other particles for good measure- we should fall far short of writing down the figure needed. 26
The numbers defining the design and plan of the universe's equilibrium play a crucial role and exceed comprehension. They prove that the universe is by no means the product of a coincidence, and show us "how precise the Creator's aim must have been" as Penrose stated.
http://www.hyahya.org/create03.php
2007-12-10 06:55:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
There isn't one. You can count on and on forever. There are some interesting names for very large numbers, though (quinquagintaducentillion?) See a table of them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
2007-12-10 06:51:28 · answer #9 · answered by Bender R 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There isn't a biggest number.
2007-12-10 06:58:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋