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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's not the number that makes something big, it's what it's counting. 67,502 atoms isn't very impressive, but 1 universe is!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

8 is a big number of gunshot wounds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

50 is that you?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's a pretty unimpressive number of universes, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's the most that's ever existed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Not really, though. Big numbers are a separate branch of mathematics. A googolplex, for instance is more than the number of atoms in the observable universe, but it's way smaller than grahams number.

What it counts is not exactly the point is more of a definition exercise of what the upper bound is of what we can imagine it put in words. Sometimes it has functionality, such as the largest Mersenne prime.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its more impressive to count 67502 atoms than to count 1 universe

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"67,502! 67,502 atoms, ah, ah, ah!"

thunder and lightning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

thunder and lightning

Very, very frightning me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Five! Five Galileos, ah, ah, ah!