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“what is the biggest number”

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The biggest number in the world is so big that mathematicians don't even think it exists.

Top 5 biggest numbers, according to me.

  1. 5
  2. 1 Million
  3. 100 Billion
  4. 999 Trillion
  5. Brazillian

Original post: https://xcancel.com/ChatgptLunatics/status/1995441330986598532

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 67 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

It's true. If you ask a mathematician what number is the biggest they won't give you a straight answer.

Like, what even is an aleph?

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

In set theory, sets containing an infinite number things are relatively easy to describe. For example, "All the counting numbers" is a set with an infinite number of things in it.

Many sets with an infinite number of things have a one to one correspondence to each other, meaning that we can describe a function that takes elements of one set as an input, gives elements of the other set as an output, and spans both sets - no element is skipped on either side.

"All the even counting numbers" has a one to one correspondence with "All the counting numbers". You can look into Hilbert's Hotel for a good demonstration of how this works.

Not all sets with an infinite number of things correspond with the set of all counting numbers, because some are fundamentally bigger. This difference in size doesn't happen just once (e.g. there are countably infinite sets, and uncountably infinite sets, and that's all we need to know), there are actually an infinite number of sets of progressively bigger infinite numbers of elements.

Because this is a confusing mess, we needed a way to keep track of how infinitely big each infinitely big set is, and the aleph cardinalities are the preferred way to do that. Any set with cardinality of aleph zero (aka "aleph null") has a one to one correspondence with any other set with cardinality aleph zero. The same is true for every other aleph cardinality. Two sets of cardinality aleph thirty seven have a one to one correspondence with each other.

Anyways, busy beaver(tree(aleph omega)) is the biggest number.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Pretty sure they were being sarcastic. I mean they know the word aleph which strongly indicates they know what sets of infinite numbers are.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago

-ant! Finish your words, it's not that hard!

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[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 45 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I heard there was a earthquake in Rio de Janeiro. The casualties were in the Brazilians.

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 22 points 2 weeks ago

This is the AI I want. Like pure early day chaos where Will Smith couldn't eat spaghetti, that Forever Seinfeld on twitch, the weird recipes like 80lbs of salt.

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Every time I see one of those AI fuckups and try it myself, it never works :/

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[–] xep@discuss.online 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's Numberwang! It's time to rotate the board.

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[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

ahem.

Brazillian?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mtpender@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

"God damn Loch Ness monster!"

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I always liked Graham's Number. I didn't like that it was TREE(1)=1, TREE(2)=3, and TREE(3) dwarfs even Graham's Number. At least G=g_64 which is built up from g_1.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You just sent me down a rabbit hole learning about TREE(3), thank you

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, there are a ton of people living in Brazil. There are like, Brazillians of them.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] webp@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

1 Brazillian.

No, 1 Hollywood.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tbf, some infinities are bigger than others.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I want a Brazilian dollars lol

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, guess I am a number now

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I always knew I could count on you

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

valeu broder, é nóis 👍

[–] lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was looking for doc's age in the movie...

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[–] postcapitalism@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly this is a great answer

"Pick a number - any number - between one and one Brazilian. Don't tell me the number. Now multiply it by 3..."

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Biggest signed 32 bit integer i can do gets to 2038

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

24 is the highest number.

24 is the highest number.

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYyS0L0uJ7A

[–] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Garbage in, garbage out

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Haha, this reminds me of sitting in bed with my 4 year old talking about big numbers.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is likely fake, but still funny. I just tried it and got a reasonable answer.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

Could still be real. Ai will give different answers to the same question.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's quite plausibly real. Gemini can def get in shitposty basins and has historically had a fairly inconsistent coherence across samples.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

If this is real an unedited... maybe ai wasnt a mistake

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Here's a fun game: ask gemini to accurately represent all digits in the largest number possible with a 64-bit float. So far I've gotten 0,000 and a 65,013-digit number that's mostly zeroes.

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The biggest number is TREE(3)

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, my partner also does this when I ask what's you're favourite X its never just one thing, its ALLWAYS a list of things.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's the number that's bigger than any other.

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