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These Numbers Explain the Nature of Reality

Inquiring Minds

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Why Some Numbers Make My Head Explode Into Black Hole?

Graham's number is the largest number ever to be used in a mathematical proof. Each individual digit in that number carries some information about the number, right? And so because there's so much information in Graham's number, you're adding an awful lot of mass to your head if you're trying to picture it in your head. It's literally going to collapse your head into a black hole. So what I thought was a real really nice way to sort of picture how big it was was, well, suppose you actually imagine this number in your head, literally, it's sort of digits that make it up sort of one by one written out in yourHead. What would happen? Well,

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