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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 91 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Infinity is technically not a number tho πŸ€“β˜οΈ

The boss isn't an employee either 😎

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely not a real number.

Not an imaginary number either

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They all are, except the imaginary ones

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They seemed a bit too complex to bring up.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's not the number that makes something big, it's what it's counting. 67,502 atoms isn't very impressive, but 1 universe is!

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

8 is a big number of gunshot wounds.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

50 is that you?

[–] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a pretty unimpressive number of universes, though.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its more impressive to count 67502 atoms than to count 1 universe

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"67,502! 67,502 atoms, ah, ah, ah!"

thunder and lightning

[–] genuineparts 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thunder and lightning

Very, very frightning me

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Five! Five Galileos, ah, ah, ah!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Not really, though. Big numbers are a separate branch of mathematics. A googolplex, for instance is more than the number of atoms in the observable universe, but it's way smaller than grahams number.

What it counts is not exactly the point is more of a definition exercise of what the upper bound is of what we can imagine it put in words. Sometimes it has functionality, such as the largest Mersenne prime.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

9136 looks so excited to be in their presence. I wonder if that was intentional (starting the number with a 9, which, coupled with the eye, makes a left-facing face) or happenstance.

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Good artists think of all those things. Note how the 9 β€œopened up” more to be like smiling and standing at greater attention in respect, and in the other the number the 2 has it’s foot tucked behind itself in shame as it’s apologizing. Good stuff :-)

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago