Zero to Infinity

This video shows highlights from the Zero to Infinity event held at the Science Museum's Dana Centre on 22/10/08.

Click on 'watch in HD' on the bottom right hand corner of the player to enjoy the video in high definition.

The music is by Nine Inch Nails taken from the Ghosts I-IV album and made available for use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
http://ghosts.nin.com/main/more_info

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Jane Wess
• Paul Prudence
• Eleanor Robson
• Marcus du Sautoy
• zero
• infinity
• maths
• mathematics
• dana centre
• dana
• Science Museum
• numbers
• cantor
• abacus
• zero infinity
• NIN
• Nine Inch Nails

[RJL738]

Sense the number of notation level become so great that they need their own level of exponents and tetration, not a third level but a third dimention of notation happens possibly ({[11 for an undecation of notation levels. These notation symbols may not be these but something simple, concise and recognisable. In some cases a possible new alphabet of notation should be invented. It needs to be known however wether a new notation or level or how many dimentions of notation are being used.

[RJL738]

Xonation (xona=10^27) being [10^27, wekation [10^30 and vundation [10^33. Obviously the notation level become so numerous that a second level of notation is needed going into an exponentiation of notations and [10^10^10^1,000 a tetration of notation, what about a pentation, hexation and undecation of them. Would this in turn be represented {[11, for a yattation of notation levels {[10^24, {[10^10^10^3000? A pentation of notation levels? A terration of notation levels? A 10^345 notation levels.

[RJL738]

So there are the first few operations addition, multiplication, exponentiation, tetration, pentation, hexation, heptation up to decation maybe even undecation, duodecation, tridecation who knows about those. If you had enough notation levels you would need a notation to notate the number of level being used. The first 1-4 could be notated [1, [2, [3, [4 and 10 and beyond [10. Kilation being the thousandth notation being [1,000, gigation being billion [1,000,000,000, yattation being [10^24.