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by pfarrell 2170 days ago
WaitButWhy has a great longform piece explaining how big Graham’s number is. Like, make your stomach drop, big. Bonus, it contains an explanation of Knuth notation.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
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zimpenfish 2170 days ago
And then you get Tree(3) which when compared means "[Graham's number] might as well be 1".

https://joshkerr.com/tree3-is-a-big-number-i-mean-really-big...

Maths is wacky.

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