Numbers too big to imagine

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Publicado 2023-09-24
In mathematics, tetration is an operation based on iterated, or repeated, exponentiation. By using operations such as tetration, pentation or hexation we can create enormous numbers. Graham’s number is one of the most famous big numbers, but there are many even bigger numbers.

Chapters:
00:00 First Hyperoperations
00:35 Tetration
01:26 Infinite Towers
02:12 Higher-level operations
03:23 Graham's Number
04:45 TREE(3)
07:00 Giant Numbers

Music:
‪@AlekseyChistilin‬
LEMMiNO - Cipher -    • LEMMiNO - Cipher (BGM)  

Todos los comentarios (21)
  • @digitalgenius111
    From 7:26 all the greater-than signs (">") should be pointing in the other direction ("<"). Sorry for the mistake.
  • @ChessGrandPasta
    it still amazes me to think that if you were to pick a random positive integer the chance that it's bigger than Graham's number tends to 100%.
  • @soup9242
    I find it funny how TREE(1) is 1, TREE(2) is 3, and TREE(3) is some ungodly huge number.
  • @shawnheim5043
    Tree 1: 1 Tree 2: 3 Tree 3: Unimaginably huge number beyond the realm of human comprehension
  • @_Norv
    Finally, a good way to measure the ratio of chips to air in a lay’s packet of chips.
  • @user-zb1wc3rz9f
    Even though TREE(3) completely dwarfs g63, I love Graham's Number because you can somewhat appreciate just how insanely massive it is when you express it in terms of how many 3s and exponentiation towers exist even just in g(0). In comparison, the tree function is like... "Yeah here's some confusing rules, we go from 1, to 3, to practically-but-not-quite forever"
  • I can personally attest to the fact that tree(3) is a large number because I stayed up all night with pens and paper testing it by drawing trees and I never came to the end. I had well over 400 trees drawn in that time and didn't seem to be near the end of possible trees. I fell asleep and dreamed of trees combinations.😮
  • @ashagupta3464
    And still, all of them are closer to zero than infinity
  • @marasmusine
    I do like how we can't write down Graham's number even if we inscribed a digit on every particle in the visible universe, but we do know what digits it ends in (last digit is 7).
  • The fact that its easier to imagine infinity than a really big number is insane. Its easy to know infinity goes forever but its almost impossible how big would a pile of 7 tetrated by 7 number of apples
  • @livingthemcdream
    Just so you know, you just explained exponentiation better than literally every teacher I have had up until now in less than 30 seconds
  • @niviera7807
    I opened YouTube to listen to some music and here i am watching a man teaching me math
  • @EnerJetix
    This video felt like a combination of Numberphile’s videos on the topics, but with neat animation as visuals instead. Very well done
  • I never thought a number could scare me, but G1 is already so stupidly and mindbogglingly big that it does the trick.
  • @Aerma
    I love this video - explains complicated topics extraordinarily simply. Would love a part 2 covering even bigger numbers :)
  • @EdithKFrost
    Math teacher: Please find the next term of the sequence: 1,3,… People who know the game of trees: 😢
  • @ycajal
    This is mind-boggling in so many tree levels
  • @dante7228
    Wrong video at 5 o'clock after waking up. It just obliterated my brain...
  • @KiatHuang
    The best exposition I've seen so far on large numbers with precise descriptions and excellent graphics. The narrator's voice is perfect for describing mathematics in English. At university I always preferred maths lecturers who did not have English as their mother tongue - less fluff, focus on diction.