The largest number is forty-five billion. But mathematicians believe there may be even larger ones
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Alright, enough fooling around, reply with the biggest finite number you can fit in a single Tweet
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the least of upper bound of all finite numbers that can be fit in a single Tweet
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...actually i'm not sure whether that could be called a finite number
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The biggest finite number you can define in a single tweet plus one.
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This, plus one.
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Using Knuth's up-arrow notation: 2↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑8
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to get low-hanging fruit: the Nth Busy Beaver number, where N is the number of characters in this tweet - as explained in https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html …
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If you want it to be probably contained in ZF set theory, then it’s gotta be less than BB(8000) (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2725 )
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i hate big numbers! they're too large!! so instead i am going to disobey your instructions and give you this: 1
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