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- From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
- Subject: Re: Naming Large Numbers (Re: Negative Zero)
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- References: <1992Dec12.010711.15778@leela.cs.orst.edu> <Dec.15.05.12.50.1992.13518@romulus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:23:15 GMT
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- In article <Dec.15.05.12.50.1992.13518@romulus.rutgers.edu> clong@romulus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
- >Eckler, R. "The Only Man Infinity Fears", _Word Ways_ Vol. 19,
- > Num. 4 (Nov. 1986) p. 252-254
- >
- > The largest number given is millitwoillimillionillion, which
- > can't be written down in standard notation.
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- How about Graham's Number, which, if I remember rightly is an upper
- bound on some value (which "everybody knows" is really... six), and
- had to have a special notation of its own to be writable?
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