I'm not 100% certain what the leading exclamation mark here is for, but ignoring that, there are 277 nines, so that's 10^(10^277 - 1), slightly more than a googolplexhttps://twitter.com/Cameron__Devine/status/1165850650279739392 …
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quarantine 'em Retweeted Natan Melzer
In Knuth's arrow notation this is "99↑↑89"... except that "base 9^999" means we read "99" as 9 * 9^999 + 9 in decimal, and "89" as 8 * 9^999 + 9 in decimal. So that's a little less than (10↑1000)↑↑↑2. Three arrows. Sizeable...https://twitter.com/NatanMelzer/status/1166376298559758336 …
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Natan Melzer @NatanMelzerReplying to @qntm99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99^99 base 9^9991 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
quarantine 'em Retweeted Wayne Werner
If by "And so on" we assume that the nines continue for the remainder of the Tweet, that's 276 nines. That's still three arrows, but a MUCH larger exponenthttps://twitter.com/waynejwerner/status/1165837725410504704 …
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quarantine 'em Retweeted halcanary
haha Knuth up-arrows go brrrhttps://twitter.com/halcanary/status/1165734655292837890 …
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quarantine 'em Retweeted tef e.books, depressed birb fan
Nobody specifically entered Graham's number, but this is slightly bigger than that, and easily outclasses any expression using a small, writeable number of up-arrowshttps://twitter.com/tef_ebooks/status/1165725289705607169 …
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quarantine 'em Retweeted Lost Snowdrift
This is a pretty large number. Kruskal's much faster-growing TREE function is such that TREE(3) obliterates Graham's number in terms of scale. This, however, is TREE^41(420)https://twitter.com/LostSnowdrift/status/1166096988904906752 …
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Lost Snowdrift @LostSnowdriftReplying to @qntmTREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(420)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_tree_theorem#TREE(3) …2 replies 1 retweet 9 likesShow this thread -
quarantine 'em Retweeted d ⧉ aan
I could be dead wrong about this but I'm fairly sure Kruskal's TREE function is computable with much less than a ~120 state Turing Machinehttps://twitter.com/ijks_w/status/1165727070305038337 …
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quarantine 'em Retweeted Linus Hamilton
This value is smaller than, but probably in the vicinity of, BB(9999) in terms of scale, therefore far surpassing BB(120) abovehttps://twitter.com/linyks/status/1165748190890483712 …
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quarantine 'em Retweeted pete
The Radó maximum shift function is closely related to BB in terms of growth rate but this is the first entry to start using such functions recursively instead of just passing in basic literal numbers. Excellent callhttps://twitter.com/mcallisterjp/status/1166353418002284545 …
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quarantine 'em Retweeted Drake Thomas
Not 100% certain that this is the winner but it looks suspiciously similar in construction to Rayo's number, which won a large number duel at MIT. Well donehttps://twitter.com/MaskedTorah/status/1167006809296531456 …
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Drake Thomas @MaskedTorahReplying to @qntmF(n) = Max number uniquely defined by a sentence in PA in the standard model with at most n chars. F1(n) = same as F but where language of PA has the function F. F2 for F1&F, etc. Fw = PA with access to a symbol F_m(n). Then # is Fw(BB(BB(BB(BB(BB(BB(BB(BB(BB(BB(BB(99))))))))))))2 replies 0 retweets 15 likesShow this thread
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Replying to @qntm
would "the sum of all answers given to this question, aside from this answer" count as a well-formed number
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A well-formed number, yes, but not a valid entry in the contest, because it doesn't "fit in a Tweet"
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I don't go here (where here = math) but I'm surprised your list of people trying to be snarky didn't involve someone just posting an image with an arbitrary amount of text
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Math nerds love 1) flexin on people with superior knowledge 2) following rules
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