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Article #699Re: Largest digit with a name?
From: Dave Seaman
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <4dqpsf$bp6@rebecca.albany.edu>, Herb Brown <hibrown@csc.albany.edu> wrote: >In article <3100bfc9.14096446@news.jhu.edu>, >Stephen Hwang <timelord@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> wrote: >>I believe the largest digit with a name is 10^10^100. It is called a >>googolplex. ^^^^^^^^^ >Which do you mean? 10^(10^10) or (10^10)^10? > >Exponentiation is not associative. Since (x^y)^z can be written as x^(y*z) and x^(y^z) has no simple alternative representation, the common convention is that x^y^z always means x^(y^z). A googolplex is, indeed, 10^(10^100), but as others have pointed out, this is far from being the largest number with a name. Dave Seaman
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,95a097a79829929b X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: f7972,95a097a79829929b X-Google-Attributes: gidf7972,public From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) Subject: Re: Largest digit with a name? Date: 1996/01/20 Message-ID: <4dr221$qla@seaman.cc.purdue.edu> X-Deja-AN: 135884288 references: <4dc4c6$15k@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <3100bfc9.14096446@news.jhu.edu> <4dqpsf$bp6@rebecca.albany.edu> organization: Purdue University newsgroups: can.schoolnet.math.sr,sci.math