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" Why isn’t googology (the study of large numbers) a recognized subfield of mathematics with its own journal?  There’s all these different ways of getting large numbers, and different mathematical questions that yield large numbers; and yet all those vast structures are comparable, being either greater, less, or the same.
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|" Why isn’t googology (the study of large numbers) a recognized subfield of mathematics with its own journal?  There’s all these different ways of getting large numbers, and different mathematical questions that yield large numbers; and yet all those vast structures are comparable, being either greater, less, or the same.
The process of considering how to construct the largest possible computable numbers naturally yields the recursive ordinals and the concept of ordinal analysis.  All mathematical knowledge is in a sense contained in the Busy Beaver series of huge numbers.
The process of considering how to construct the largest possible computable numbers naturally yields the recursive ordinals and the concept of ordinal analysis.  All mathematical knowledge is in a sense contained in the Busy Beaver series of huge numbers.


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