Graham's Number - Numberphile
A number so epic it will collapse your brain into a black hole! Yet Tony Padilla and Matt Parker take the risk of discussing its magnitude. Watch with caution. More links & stuff in full descriptio...
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TONY PADILLA: If you actually tried to picture Graham'snumber in your head, then your head would collapse to form ablack hole.That's not just some sort of crazy sortof pictorial image--it would.It would--you couldn't store that much information in your head.MATT PARKER: People think mathematicians just basicallylook at bigger and bigger calculations, and bigger andbigger numbers--which is not entirely true.But Graham's number I love, because it's the biggestnumber that's been used constructively.TONY PADILLA: Well, because there's a sort of maximumamount of what we call entropy that can bestored in your head.And the maximum amount of entropy you can store in yourhead is related to a black hole the size of y...
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TONY PADILLA: If you actually tried to picture Graham'snumber in your head, then your head would collapse to form ablack hole.That's not just some sort of crazy sortof pictorial image--it would.It would--you couldn't store that much information in your head.MATT PARKER: People think mathematicians just basicallylook at bigger and bigger calculations, and bigger andbigger numbers--which is not entirely true.But Graham's number I love, because it's the biggestnumber that's been used constructively.TONY PADILLA: Well, because there's a sort of maximumamount of what we call entropy that can bestored in your head.And the maximum amount of entropy you can store in yourhead is related to a black hole the size of y...
