It knows about googolplex but it can't actually keep counting up to it because there's such an incomprehensible expanse of nameless numbers between the highest sequential named number and googolplex
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I ran a calculation kinda to see if orally counting to the highest conventionally named number, with full enunciation of all the syllables, would take longer than the heat-death of the universe and I can't remember if it would but like it's up there
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Mathematicians who talk about infinity like to use the term "almost all" in this trolling way Like if there's any finite subset of an infinite set then "almost all" members of the infinite set are not in the subset
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The definition of "infinite" means that compared to it any finite number at all -- zero, one, 42, a googolplex, Graham's number -- is equivalent It's all the same as zero Your character hadn't even actually started to count
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So, like, almost all natural numbers are so large they are completely impossible to express by any means within the physical universe
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkIe60y2GI … This messed me up.
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You keep going - natural numbers, rationals, algebraic numbers, constructible numbers...then you hit the computable numbers, and realize you're not even close to getting the reals.
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Computable numbers are basically any of the real numbers that you can describe. It can go on forever (or for as long as you want, for a certain degree of precision), but you'd at least have a method for getting there. Pi counts, or whatever else.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Nymphomachy
Right, like this is fairly intuitive to grasp We can talk about pi as a number because it *has a definition* Most transcendental numbers don't
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Let's just assume you could "pick a random real number" (axiom of choice) A truly random one, with nothing special about it like pi How would you name it, how would you know what it was
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Its decimal representation is an infinite series of digits You'll never get to the end of it, you can never stop writing it, and because it's got nothing special about it, nothing tells you what the next one will be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Yeah, exactly. Which makes the meaningful numbers these tiny, vanishing points in a sea of noise.
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