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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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