Big Numbers - Sixty Symbols

Some seriously big numbers. We start with a trillion and then move to Avogadros Number - but they are small compared with what comes next. More at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

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Science & Technology

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• Avogadros
• Number

[Ph0Xy]

Great video. The part about 10^40 was very interesting. Kinda though Grahams number would be mentionned since it is the biggest number used in a serious mathematical proof (according to wiki!) and also about the biggest number with a name on it (googolplexian?).

But I guess those are not really scientific numbers and are more for the general knowledge. A quick reference would of been nice though.

Nonetheless, Great video! I've went through almost ALL the sixtysymbols videos! :)

[sixtysymbols]

@Ph0Xy: I'd like to do Graham's Number some time.... I'm a bit obsessed with it myself! :)

[jakkbomb]

Actually no, it is not "basically infinity"

To our subjective perception, a googolplex is so large that we cannot really intuit it. From our subjective POV, it looks the same as infinity. But it isn't.

From the POV of infinity, a googolplex is "basically" no bigger than 1.

Infinity and incomprehensibly large numbers are not the same thing.

[11000010101]

You know, anything expressed with just usual mathematical operations seems so tiny compared to numbers such as Grahams number ^^

[vwerlingyahoocom]

@sixtysymbols Googolplex is a really big number. You should stick with googolplex… if youm use Ghram’s Nuber,… WOAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

[nessdude14]

Have you ever been told you look like Christopher Lloyd?

[tomaskvapil]

The sound while wiriting is killing me :) ..but great videos, love that

[Quasi84]

@oogrooq Make that meters. An inch is tiny and an obsolete unit.

[chrisofnottingham]

I just rediscovered this when youtube suggested it.

The prof briefly mentioned the anthropic principal which is a personal favourite idea of mine. It's not exactly science but it would make an interesting topic for a sixty symbols type video.

Also, isn't it brilliant that such huge numbers can be written down so efficiently using index notation.

[oogrooq]

Young earth creationists can have a go at my 10^40 inch penis.

[MultiPaulinator]

@vertexgo "Numbers" by definition are not necessarily ratios; they are values. Rational numbers are numbers whose value can be written in decimal form as a consequence of their definition of being the ratio of two integers 5=10/2, -0.3repeating=-1/3, etc. Irrational numbers are still specific values and thus still numbers, however because of their irrationality, they can't be written in decimal form. The exact value of sqrt(2) can only be written like that or 2^(1/2). It's still a number though.

[vertexgo]

... dimension - therefore for a lot of applications pi = 3 is enough. it is not an application to apply math on math - that's masturbation (in the real but long ago forgotten sense of this word - which is connected only to one thing in the limited minds).